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33.\" Author: Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>
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38.Dd November 13, 2012
39.Dt NG_BPF 4
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ng_bpf
43.Nd Berkeley packet filter netgraph node type
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/types.h
46.In net/bpf.h
47.In netgraph.h
48.In netgraph/ng_bpf.h
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm bpf
52node type allows Berkeley Packet Filter (see
53.Xr bpf 4 )
54filters to be applied to data travelling through a Netgraph network.
55Each node allows an arbitrary number of connections to arbitrarily
56named hooks.
57With each hook is associated a
58.Xr bpf 4
59filter program which is applied to incoming data only, a destination hook
60for matching packets, a destination hook for non-matching packets,
61and various statistics counters.
62.Pp
63A
64.Xr bpf 4
65program returns an unsigned integer, which is normally interpreted as
66the length of the prefix of the packet to return.
67In the context of this
68node type, returning zero is considered a non-match, in which case the
69entire packet is delivered out the non-match destination hook.
70Returning a value greater than zero causes the packet to be truncated
71to that length and delivered out the match destination hook.
72Either or both destination hooks may be the empty string, or may
73not exist, in which case the packet is dropped.
74.Pp
75New hooks are initially configured to drop all packets.
76A new filter program may be installed using the
77.Dv NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM
78control message.
79.Sh HOOKS
80This node type supports any number of hooks having arbitrary names.
81.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES
82This node type supports the generic control messages, plus the following:
83.Bl -tag -width foo
84.It Dv NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM Pq Ic setprogram
85This command sets the filter program that will be applied to incoming
86data on a hook.
87The following structure must be supplied as an argument:
88.Bd -literal -offset 4n
89struct ng_bpf_hookprog {
90  char            thisHook[NG_HOOKSIZ];     /* name of hook */
91  char            ifMatch[NG_HOOKSIZ];      /* match dest hook */
92  char            ifNotMatch[NG_HOOKSIZ];   /* !match dest hook */
93  int32_t         bpf_prog_len;             /* #insns in program */
94  struct bpf_insn bpf_prog[];               /* bpf program */
95};
96.Ed
97.Pp
98The hook to be updated is specified in
99.Dv thisHook .
100The BPF program is the sequence of instructions in the
101.Dv bpf_prog
102array; there must be
103.Dv bpf_prog_len
104of them.
105Matching and non-matching incoming packets are delivered out the hooks named
106.Dv ifMatch
107and
108.Dv ifNotMatch ,
109respectively.
110The program must be a valid
111.Xr bpf 4
112program or else
113.Er EINVAL
114is returned.
115.It Dv NGM_BPF_GET_PROGRAM Pq Ic getprogram
116This command takes an
117.Tn ASCII
118string argument, the hook name, and returns the
119corresponding
120.Dv "struct ng_bpf_hookprog"
121as shown above.
122.It Dv NGM_BPF_GET_STATS Pq Ic getstats
123This command takes an
124.Tn ASCII
125string argument, the hook name, and returns the
126statistics associated with the hook as a
127.Dv "struct ng_bpf_hookstat" .
128.It Dv NGM_BPF_CLR_STATS Pq Ic clrstats
129This command takes an
130.Tn ASCII
131string argument, the hook name, and clears the
132statistics associated with the hook.
133.It Dv NGM_BPF_GETCLR_STATS Pq Ic getclrstats
134This command is identical to
135.Dv NGM_BPF_GET_STATS ,
136except that the statistics are also atomically cleared.
137.El
138.Sh SHUTDOWN
139This node shuts down upon receipt of a
140.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN
141control message, or when all hooks have been disconnected.
142.Sh EXAMPLES
143It is possible to configure a node from the command line, using
144.Xr tcpdump 1
145to generate raw BPF instructions which are then fed into an
146.Xr awk 1
147script to create the ASCII form of a
148.Dv NGM_BPF_SET_PROGRAM
149control message, as demonstrated here:
150.Bd -literal -offset 4n
151#!/bin/sh
152
153PATTERN="tcp dst port 80"
154NODEPATH="my_node:"
155INHOOK="hook1"
156MATCHHOOK="hook2"
157NOTMATCHHOOK="hook3"
158
159BPFPROG=$( tcpdump -s 8192 -p -ddd ${PATTERN} | \\
160           ( read len ; \\
161             echo -n "bpf_prog_len=$len" ; \\
162             echo -n "bpf_prog=[" ; \\
163             while read code jt jf k ; do \\
164                 echo -n " { code=$code jt=$jt jf=$jf k=$k }" ; \\
165             done ; \\
166             echo " ]" ) )
167
168ngctl msg ${NODEPATH} setprogram { thisHook=\\"${INHOOK}\\" \\
169  ifMatch=\\"${MATCHHOOK}\\" \\
170  ifNotMatch=\\"${NOTMATCHHOOK}\\" \\
171  ${BPFPROG} }
172.Ed
173.Sh SEE ALSO
174.Xr bpf 4 ,
175.Xr netgraph 4 ,
176.Xr ngctl 8
177.Sh HISTORY
178The
179.Nm
180node type was implemented in
181.Fx 4.0 .
182.Sh AUTHORS
183.An Archie Cobbs Aq Mt archie@FreeBSD.org
184.Sh BUGS
185When built as a loadable kernel module, this module includes the file
186.Pa net/bpf_filter.c .
187Although loading the module should fail if
188.Pa net/bpf_filter.c
189already exists in the kernel, currently it does not, and the duplicate
190copies of the file do not interfere.
191However, this may change in the future.
192