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From: "Lluís Batlle" <viriketo@gmail.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] About multihop route decision without Julian's patches
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:39:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45219fb005070508395241a389@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

As I've read in
http://gnumonks.org/papers/netfilter-lk2000/presentation.html, there's
said about the "nat" netfilter table:
"This table is different from the 'filter' table, in that only the
first packet of a new connection will traverse the table. The result
of this traversal is then applied to all future packets of the same
connection."

I imagine that the result of this traversal is stored in a kernel
table, dumpable through "/proc/net/ip_conntrack". There is no
information about the destination device of the route... When is the
route decision made? After setting all the information gathered from
ip_conntrack, or _before_ that? It isn't clear to me, if the "applying
of the result of the traversal" is applied in the PREROUTING or the
POSTROUTING nat chain.

I think I better look at the source code... but it's quite hard for me
to understand the data structures there. If not an answer about my
question, I'd agree for a link to the documentation of all net-code
data structures of the linux kernel.

Thanks :)
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