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Gateway Device Input Processing and Packet
Classification
Packets that originated from a client, or the Internet, would have arrived at this block. The ARP
protocol was used to match an IP address to a MAC address on the client network. The Internet
gateway configuration did not implement this protocol. The elements included in this block can
be seen in Figure 5-9.
Figure 5-9: Directed Graph of Gateway Device Input Processing and Packet Classification
Block
The Classifier first classified all packets. If they corresponded to an ARP request, they were sent
to an ARPResponder.
If the incoming packet was an ARP reply packet, it was sent to the first input of the intern_arpq
ARPQuerier element. In the Internet Gateway Configuration these packets were discarded. Data
packets were sent on for further processing. If a packet could not be classified as either an ARP
packet or a data packet, it was discarded.
The data packets had their Ethernet headers stripped, then had the integrity of their IP header
checked. In the Internet Gateway Configuration, the packets were then passed to the
extern_for_me classifier. This was used to discard all packets that were not addressed to the host
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