On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:49, Wim Ceulemans wrote: > Hi > > In paragraph 6.2 of the iptables-tutorial the following is said: > "The OUTPUT chain is used for altering locally generated packets (i.e., > on the firewall) before they get to the routing decision. > > But in paragraph 3.1, the "Traversing of tables and chains" diagram, we > see the "Routing decision" is listed after the "Local process" and > BEFORE! the packet goes to the output chain. > > So which one is right? Does the routing decision take place after or > before the packet travels through the output chain? Are you not getting confused with 'locally generated' and 'local process'. They are not the same thing. > > Regards -- -- Raymond Leach <raymondl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Network Support Specialist http://www.knowledgefactory.co.za "lynx -source http://www.rchq.co.za/raymondl.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 7209 A695 9EE0 E971 A9AD 00EE 8757 EE47 F06F FB28 --
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