From owner-freebsd-net Sat May 25 18:27: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from merlino.iscanet.com (merlino.iscanet.com [217.59.173.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4141737B409 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 18:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iwalk.iscanet.intr (alice.iscanet.com [217.59.173.230]) (authenticated bits=0) by merlino.iscanet.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4Q1RNUq071289; Sun, 26 May 2002 03:27:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rlucia@iscanet.com) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 03:26:48 +0200 Subject: Re: ng_fwdswitch netgraph node Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org To: Julian Elischer From: Rocco Lucia In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:31:54AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > some comments.. > > 1/ it may be more useful to not make any distinction between > 'in' and 'out' hooks but just have connections.. > The hooks could be given purely arbitrary names > e.g. "source1" and "suspicious" > a hook could be configured as being 'read-only' by command > rather than by special name.. (though special names are > not a very bad way of doing it.. > "out-normal" > and > "out-dubious" > Ah, sure, that's a good idea, I'm going to rework it to be able to set node behavior sending it messages... that would consume some more cycles per packet tho. Thank you for the suggestion :) -- Rocco Lucia - rlucia@iscanet.com Iscanet Internet Services http://elisa.utopianet.net/~rlucia System and Network Admin C6E6 AC9A 1361 FB38 B47A 2792 9FC4 C52F 7A68 4468 Free unices for a free world. Support *BSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message