The divert(4) is not a protocol of IPv4. It is a socket to
intercept packets from ipfw(4) to userland and re-inject them
back. It can divert and re-inject IPv4 and IPv6 packets today,
but potentially it is not limited to these two protocols. The
IPPROTO_DIVERT does not belong to known IP protocols, it
doesn't even fit into u_char. I guess, the implementation of
divert(4) was done the way it is done basically because it was
easier to do it this way, back when protocols for sockets were
intertwined with IP protocols and domains were statically
compiled in.
Moving divert(4) out of inetsw accomplished two important things:
1) IPDIVERT is getting much closer to be not dependent on INET.
This will be finalized in following changes.
2) Now divert socket no longer aliases with raw IPv4 socket.
Domain/proto selection code won't need a hack for SOCK_RAW and
multiple entries in inetsw implementing different flavors of
raw socket can merge into one without requirement of raw IPv4
being the last member of dom_protosw.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36379
constants NG_*SIZ that include the trailing NUL byte. This change
is mostly mechanical except for the replacement of a couple of snprintf()
and sprintf() calls with strlcpy.
NGM_BINARY2ASCII, which convert control messages to ASCII and back.
This allows control messages to be sent and received in ASCII form
using ngctl(8), which makes ngctl a lot more useful.
This also allows all the type-specific debugging code in libnetgraph
to go away -- instead, we just ask the node itself to do the ASCII
translation for us.
Currently, all generic control messages are supported, as well as
messages associated with the following node types: async, cisco,
ksocket, and ppp.
See /usr/share/examples/netgraph/ngctl for an example of using this.
Also give ngctl(8) the ability to print out incoming data and
control messages at any time. Eventually nghook(8) may be subsumed.
Several other misc. bug fixes.
Reviewed by: julian
