ovpn_peer_get_by_dst(9)

💅 ovpn_peer_get_by_dst 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the ovpn_peer_get_by_dst(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. this is the peer lookup by destination situation, and yes it's giving main character energy. 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

ovpn_peer_get_by_dst — lookup peer to send skb to. slay. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct ovpn_peer * ovpn_peer_get_by_dst (struct ovpn_priv *ovpn , struct sk_buff *skb );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ovpn — the private data representing the current VPN session. that's the session vibe holder. 💜
• skb — the skb to extract the destination address from. yes bestie, the whole point. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this function takes a tunnel packet and looks up the peer to send it to after encapsulation. no cap. 🔥

the skb is expected to be the in-tunnel packet, without any OpenVPN related header. literally keep that in mind. 💅

assume that the IP header is accessible in the skb data. that's the assumption, periodt. 🫶

🌈 RETURN 🌈

the peer if found, or NULL otherwise. cute and simple. 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c
• ovpn_peer_keepalive_set(9)
• ovpn_peer_keepalive_send(9)
• ovpn_peer_new(9)
• ovpn_peer_reset_sockaddr(9)
• ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_rcu(9)
• ovpn_peer_release(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_kref(9)
• ovpn_peer_skb_to_sockaddr(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_skb4(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_skb6(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_vpn_addr4(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_vpn_addr6(9)
• ovpn_peer_vpn_addr_conflict4(9)
• ovpn_peer_vpn_addr_conflict6(9)
• ovpn_peer_transp_match(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_id_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_id(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_rt4(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_rt6(9)
• ovpn_peer_check_by_src(9)
• ovpn_peer_add_mp(9)
• ovpn_peer_add_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_add(9)
• ovpn_peer_del_mp(9)
• ovpn_peer_del_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_del(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peers_free(9)
• ovpn_peer_keepalive_work(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie — footer says source/version ./drivers/net/ovpn, dated October 2026. go off, kernel docs. 💅✨