Subject: Re: PF Monitoring
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/2006 18:51:07
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:40:47PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> I'm mainly just wondering why it doesn't show up as a [process] like
> other kernel things.
> 
> USER      PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TTY    STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
> root        0  0.0 10.5    0 13656 ?      DKs  Mon08AM 0:00.24 [swapper]
> root        1  0.0  0.2   72   232 ?      Is   Mon08AM 0:00.04 init
> root        2  0.0 10.5    0 13656 ?      DK   Mon08AM 0:00.00 [atabus0]
> root        3  0.0 10.5    0 13656 ?      DK   Mon08AM 0:00.00 [atabus1]
> 
> Where's [pf] ?

PF doesn't have and doesn't need a kernel process. It's simply a filter
which inspects incoming and outgoing IP packets.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/