From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 5 13:52:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from artemis.drwilco.net (diana.drwilco.net [66.48.127.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04A937B416 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceres.drwilco.net (docwilco.xs4all.nl [213.84.68.230]) by artemis.drwilco.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g25LqXV12025 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified NO); Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:52:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from drwilco@drwilco.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020305230137.01c3a7c0@mail.drwilco.net> X-Sender: lists@mail.drwilco.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:03:24 +0100 To: Julian Elischer , ome ome From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Subject: Re: mpd and bpf node Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20020305134417.51019.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 09:53 5-3-2002 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >The bpf node acts as a programmable packet filter, able to divert >packets according to a program loaded into it using the normal >bpf virtual machine. > >see >man ng_bpf for more details. What Julian means is, the bpf node is used to route some packets that need attention of the mpd daemon to it, and leave the other packets alone. /me grins at Julian Doc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message