From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 13 12:30:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DA737B425 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA46634; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2DKEtc73383; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:14:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200203132014.g2DKEtc73383@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: MPD and Mysterious socket node In-Reply-To: <20020313195921.70952.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> "from ome ome at Mar 13, 2002 11:59:21 am" To: ome ome Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:14:55 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ome ome writes: > What is the aim of the socket node in MPD which appear > when i establish a pppoe session and the link becomes UP? > It is the one which is created at the same time of the > pppoe node and which disapear when the link is down. The pppoe device layer in mpd needs to talk to the ng_pppoe node. The only way for a user process to talk to other netgraph nodes is by using an ng_socket(4) node. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message