> I am trying to understand exactly what happens to a received packet > after a device driver creates an sk_buff and passes it to netif_rx(). > In 2.2 there was a net_bh() function which doesn't seem to be there in > 2.4. Could someone please explain what happens in 2.4, or provide some For IP, and most of the low-level sk_buff path, the document you want is: http://www.gnumonks.org/ftp/pub/doc/packet-journey-2.4.html -- Jason Lunz Trellis Network Security j@trellisinc.com http://www.trellisinc.com/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org