On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:22:25 -0500
John Lyon <johnll...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just woke up with a follow-up question that may be my aha moment.
> Are Netgraph edges between nodes always bidirectional? I have been
> treating all of the edges as unidirectional, requiring me to create
> two separate Netgraphs.  But if they are bidirectional, that would
> explain some things.

edges -> hooks in netgraph parlance

man 4 netgraph -> /Hooks -> "Data flows bidirectionally between nodes"

A lot of people arrive at BSD / netgraph with previous experiences
with the Click modular router, which might have caused the confusion,
since in Click all datapaths are always unidirectional.  Not
(necessarily) so in netgraph.
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