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Netfilters
My understanding is that, after network interface card receives a packet
and is done with interrupt processing, it setups softirq to run. This
softirq runs the IP stack (if ofcourse packet belongs to IP protocol)
untill the point packet is handed over to user application.
Am I right ?
If this is correct, than any module, which is using netfilter facility
is also running in softirq ?
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