From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 5 14:40:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D4337B41D for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020305224008.VUQY2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:40:08 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA32852; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:30:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:30:50 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: ome ome , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mpd and bpf node In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020305230137.01c3a7c0@mail.drwilco.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 ummm yeah.. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote: > 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