From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: Journey of a network packet through linux 2.6 network stack Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:42:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20120619114211.GE445@1984> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: AFT Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:60217 "EHLO mail.us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751553Ab2FSLmW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:42:22 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:25:01PM +0600, AFT wrote: > > Hi, > > A document with this heading can be found for 2.4 network stack. But i > have not found any document regarding 2.6 network stack. > > When i was searching netfilter mailing list archive, i got the following > post : > > http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2007-august/069583.html > > in this post author mentioned about a document named after this. but > does not gave any link to that document. > > so i'm wondering if any similar document can be found? You've got Linux Networking internals. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002558.do It's pretty think, but it provides some panoramic. As kernel code evolves quite quickly, you may find that some things have changed, but it's a good base to start with if you're looking for an alternative to reading pure code.