A netgraph question.

[Joe Pellegrino]

OK so here it goes. I actually have two seperate questions involving 
netgraph, I am new to this subject so please bare with me. If there is 
a better way to achieve these goals too, please suggest them but I 
think netgraph is the way to go.

The first part involves allowing a userland program to communicate with a 
kernel module, similar to how netlink works in Linux. The second part 
involves intercepting network packets and possibly manipulating them 
before they are allowed to proceed, similar to how netfilter works. I 
believe I can do both of these with the netgraph (ng_socket and 
possibly ng_ether). I haven't looked closely at ng_ether yet so I'll 
focus on ng_socket.

I have been able to create a ng_socket (Control and Data) using the socket 
call as described in "All About NetGraphs" and the man page. I've also 
been able to 'name' the node using bind. I was able to verify this using 
ngctl. I know (from the man page) I should eventually be able to 
send/receive using the sendto/recvfrom functions once the connection is 
established. But beyond this I don't know how to proceed. So the question 
is what are the next steps. For example:

Although I see a named netgraph node there are no hooks. ng_socket says it 
supports an arbitrary number of hooks so how do I create the hooks? Then 
of course how do I connect them.

Of course I realize that I proabably need to create a node on the kernel 
side so which type of netgraph node would be suggested? How is it created 
and then hooked to the ng_socket?

Again I am looking to allow some IPC between a userland program and a 
kernel module similar to the Linux netlink. I've been through most man 
pages and can't seem to find a lot of good documentation or example code 
so I am hoping to get some pointers here. BTW If this is the wrong list 
please directly to the right place to ask. Thanks in advance.

---jdp