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From: Ray Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>
To: Netfilter Mailing List <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Routing decision?
Date: 15 Sep 2003 11:08:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063616905.31092.78.camel@raylinux.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F657D37.1010000@able.be>

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On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:49, Wim Ceulemans wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In paragraph 6.2 of the iptables-tutorial the following is said:
> "The OUTPUT chain is used for altering locally generated packets (i.e., 
> on the firewall) before they get to the routing decision.
> 
> But in paragraph 3.1, the "Traversing of tables and chains" diagram, we 
> see the "Routing decision" is listed after the "Local process" and
> BEFORE! the packet goes to the output chain.
> 
> So which one is right? Does the routing decision take place after or 
> before the packet travels through the output chain?

Are you not getting confused with 'locally generated' and 'local
process'. They are not the same thing.

> 
> Regards
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-15  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-15  8:49 Routing decision? Wim Ceulemans
2003-09-15  9:08 ` Ray Leach [this message]
2003-09-15 10:44   ` Wim Ceulemans
2003-09-15 12:14     ` Ray Leach
2003-09-15 12:53       ` Wim Ceulemans
2003-09-15 13:09         ` Ray Leach
2003-09-15 13:31           ` Cedric Blancher
2003-09-15 13:46             ` Ray Leach
2003-09-15 14:00               ` Cedric Blancher
2003-09-15 15:03                 ` Ray Leach

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