Re: Netfilters

[Shine Mohamed Jabbar <shinemohamed_j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 ?

http://open-source.arkoon.net/kernel/kernel_net.png
Hope this will help u to some extent.. :-)

Shine Mohamed
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