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/