Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:24:28 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fwd and bridging Message-ID: <20030409212428.GA460@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <00b301c2fb7a$218b14a0$0201a8c0@twinstar> References: <00b301c2fb7a$218b14a0$0201a8c0@twinstar>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 07:49:03AM -0600, Shawn Barnhart wrote:
> The manpage states that fwd rules (like for transparent proxying) will not
> match bridged packets. Will they ever, or is there some fundamental reason
> they can't?
Bridged packets are never processed at the IP layer, that is, they
never get passed to the ip_input() function. All of the 'fwd' code
lives in ip_input() and ip_output() at the IP layer and above.
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