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Network Layer (IPv4)

Hooks are provided at the network layer for IPv4 to facilitate:

Existing Netfilter [23] hooks are used to provide access to IP datagrams in pre-routing, local input, forwarding, local output and post-routing phases. Through these hooks, LSM intercepts packets before and after the standard iptables-based access control and translation mechanisms. Note that the Netfilter hooks used by LSM do not increase the code footprint imposed by LSM on the standard kernel.



James Morris
2002-07-09