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Old 25th September 2018
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Default Dumb pf question

Why does top (on openbsd) not show a 'pf' process running? I see pflogd but that's it. Everything looks and acts fine, I just thought I'd over-analyze this.
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Old 25th September 2018
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I'm going to take a wild guess that it's because "packet filtering takes place in the kernel" ... see pf(4).
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