Re: [PATCH 1/5] netfilter: ipv6: move POSTROUTING invocation before fragmentation

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On Thursday 2010-04-01 13:56, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>>>> just to defragment the packets in conntrack
>>>>> immediately afterwards
>
>This was supposed to read "one more *de*fragmentation pass. In
>IPv6 we don't have to refragment, but simply output the original
>fragments.
>
>> Assuming [nf-packet-flow.png] as a base, there are two
>> spots in which conntrack/defrag happens: PREROUTING and OUTPUT.
>> [...]
>> We never see fragments in the ruleset
>> 
>>  a) for netif_rx received packets, defrag will be run early
>>     (yes, there's raw, but that's special anyway)
>> 
>>  b) locally-generated packets are fragmented only after all of
>>     Netfilter is done.
>
>You're assuming conntrack is used.

That was what your original message was about, was it not?

If there is no nf_defrag loaded, there is not much left besides
the standard IPv4 stack defrag on input, the fragmentation
on output, and the double-fragmentation on forward.

What did I miss?
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