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authorPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>2024-04-24 23:48:56 +0200
committerPhil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>2024-04-24 23:59:00 +0200
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doc: nft.8: Highlight "hook" in flowtable description
Lacking an explicit description of possible hook values, emphasising the word in the description text should draw readers' attention in the right direction. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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@@ -747,8 +747,8 @@ protocols. Each entry also caches the destination interface and the gateway
address - to update the destination link-layer address - to forward packets.
The ttl and hoplimit fields are also decremented. Hence, flowtables provides an
alternative path that allow packets to bypass the classic forwarding path.
-Flowtables reside in the ingress hook that is located before the prerouting
-hook. You can select which flows you want to offload through the flow
+Flowtables reside in the ingress *hook* that is located before the prerouting
+*hook*. You can select which flows you want to offload through the flow
expression from the forward chain. Flowtables are identified by their address
family and their name. The address family must be one of ip, ip6, or inet. The inet
address family is a dummy family which is used to create hybrid IPv4/IPv6