On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 05:44:39PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote:
> The man page states
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>     The ip_input node type takes all received packets and queues them into
>     the IP in input processing subsystem.
> 
> Can some one elaborate where does this come in ip stack and what does
> this node do? I am not able to understand this just by reading the man
> page
> 
It does this simple thing:

> netisr_dispatch(NETISR_IP, m);

which means putting the mbuf pointed to by "m" into the IP
input queue and scheduling a call to ip_input().


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