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From: "Billy Crook" <billycrook@gmail.com>
To: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <ildefonso.camargo@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about packet flow picture.
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:04:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a43edf1b0808260704k947044ekf0d9ba51dd4e2577@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c4b58e80808260556o1f25214el31cf22bd2284156e@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:56, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
<ildefonso.camargo@gmail.com> wrote:
> OUTPUT (raw) ---> Conntrack ---> OUTPUT (mangle) ----> reroute
> check???? ---> OUTPUT (nat)
>
> Shouldn't the "reroute check" go *after* OUTPUT (nat) ?

I'm not sure

> and I have one doubt:
>
> It says that:
>
> ebtables OUTPUT (nat) --> ebtables OUTPUT (filter) --> ebtables
> POSTROUTING (nat) --> Network Output
>
> But, shouldn't it "reroute" the packet after ebtables OUTPUT (nat)?

To where should it reroute?  EBtables lies underneath iptables,
between it and the hardware (usually).  When ebtables is done with the
packet, it'd done with it.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-26 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-25 23:41 Question about packet flow picture Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
2008-08-26  3:23 ` Billy Crook
2008-08-26 12:56   ` Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
2008-08-26 14:04     ` Billy Crook [this message]
2008-08-26 14:48     ` Michal Soltys

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