Re: Question about packet flow picture.

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:56, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
<ildefonso.camargo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OUTPUT (raw) ---> Conntrack ---> OUTPUT (mangle) ----> reroute
> check???? ---> OUTPUT (nat)
>
> Shouldn't the "reroute check" go *after* OUTPUT (nat) ?

I'm not sure

> and I have one doubt:
>
> It says that:
>
> ebtables OUTPUT (nat) --> ebtables OUTPUT (filter) --> ebtables
> POSTROUTING (nat) --> Network Output
>
> But, shouldn't it "reroute" the packet after ebtables OUTPUT (nat)?

To where should it reroute?  EBtables lies underneath iptables,
between it and the hardware (usually).  When ebtables is done with the
packet, it'd done with it.
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