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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:38:51 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r201517 - in user/luigi/ipfw3-head/sys/netinet: .  ipfw
Message-ID:  <9a542da31001051038t9f253fbo79241b11dbba9100@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100105182643.GA93051@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <201001041658.o04GwFfG023749@svn.freebsd.org> <9a542da31001051006r61af058eg715c29ef0d3d2020@mail.gmail.com>  <20100105182643.GA93051@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:06:51PM +0100, Ermal Lu?i wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Author: luigi
> > > Date: Mon Jan  4 16:58:15 2010
> > > New Revision: 201517
> > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/201517
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >  divert has no specific API so we don't really need an ip_divert.h
> > >
> > >
> > >  DECLARE_MODULE(ipdivert, ipdivertmod, SI_SUB_PROTO_IFATTACHDOMAIN,
> > > SI_ORDER_ANY);
> > > -MODULE_DEPEND(dummynet, ipfw, 2, 2, 2);
> > > +MODULE_DEPEND(ipdivert, ipfw, 2, 2, 2);
> > >  MODULE_VERSION(ipdivert, 1);
> > >
> >
> > I would suggest to remove the dependency altogether  since divert(4) does
> > not really depend on ipfw(4). Furthermore, the newest pf(4) can work
> > together with divert(4) so the it will have more than one consumer in the
> > tree.
>
> I was not aware of pf support -- in fact, i wonder how divert could work
> without ipfw because the function pointer ip_divert_ptr at the moment
> is defined in ip_fw_pfil.c .
>
> There are in fact, I believe, two things that enforce the dependency:
> 1. the ip_divert_ptr above. We should move it elsewhere, in the
>  standard ip_* files;
>
> 2. the tag that is attached to the packet to record the reinject cookie
>  (I have recently redefined it as MTAG_IPFW_RULE because i was
>  not aware of the pf(4) support -- i need to revert/fix this if
>  we want divert and pf cooperation (though note that I tried to
>  have the same mtag format for all reinjected packets -- dummynet,
>  divert, netgraph, ... so once we fix it for one application it
>  should work for all with no special code).
>
> cheers
> luigi
>

Check it out here
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/eri/pf45/head/

<http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/eri/pf45/head/>The divert support
with the pointer moving is commit 198045 for checking on how i have done in
that branch. If you find a better solution go ahead and i will update the
referenced pf branch as well.



-- 
Ermal



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