This document outlines the process flow for receiving a packet on a network interface, passing it through various networking stacks in the kernel, and delivering it to a socket or application. Key steps include: 1) The packet is received by the network interface driver and passed to netif_receive_skb. 2) It then goes through processing such as checksum verification, filtering by iptables, and defr
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