Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 02:02:03 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <akruijff@dds.nl> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error in man ipfw / divert Message-ID: <20050722000203.GF887@Alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050721153016.A87676@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20050721214242.GA2201@Alex.lan> <20050721153016.A87676@xorpc.icir.org>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:30:16PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:42:42PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wrondering is man ipfw wrong here? > > > > man ipfw tells: divert port - > > Divert packets that match this rule to the divert(4) socket > > bound to port port. The search terminates. > ... > > I think man ipfw should say something like: > > > > when nothing is listening on the port then the search terminates > > > > when something is listening on the port then the search continues from > > the same rule. > > as far as ipfw is concerned, the search terminates. it is up to > the userland app to reinject the packet, and it might well not > do so if the packet should be processed differntly. > so i believe the ipfw manpage is correct. > if you want to add a reference to the divert manpage feel free to do so, > something like > > for more details on the operation of divers sockets see > divert(4) > > cheers > luigi Tanks, if you say its correct then i'm happy -- Alex
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