Glenn Skinner wrote:

>    Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:49:56 -0700
>    From: Darren Reed <Darren.Reed at sun.com>
>    Subject: Re: PSARC/2008/219 Committed API for packet interception
>
>    ...
>    I've updated the spec, to include the above and the other
>    corrections.
>
>    ...
>    IPFilter hook naming
>    --------------------
>    For applications that wish to insert hooks before or after IPFilter
>    in the packet stack, the names used by IPFilter are provided as an
>    uncommitted interface:
>
>    +------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
>    | Packet Hook      | IPFilter Hook Name       | Classification |
>    +------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
>    | NH_PHYSICAL_IN   | "ipfilter_hook_in"       |   Uncommitted  |
>    | NH_PHYSICAL_OUT  | "ipfilter_hook_out"      |   Uncommitted  |
>    | NH_LOOPBACK_IN   | "ipfilter_hook_loop_in"  |   Uncommitted  |
>    | NH_LOOPBACK_OUT  | "ipfilter_hook_loop_out" |   Uncommitted  |
>    +------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
>
>Does this case specify whether IPFilter supplies ordering hints when
>establishing its hooks?  If so, what are they?  (This would seem to be
>useful information for the applications alluded to above to know.)
>  
>

As IPfilter does not make use of the ordering hints, there was
nothing to mention...well, I suppose I should have mentioned that
it doesn't use them.

Darren


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