Re: Confused by filters

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, that makes more sense!  The doc's not too clear on this though.

Mal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Tofts" <tony@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_xpl] Confused by filters


> > Reading the bit of the core document about filters, it says
> > they are only applied to broadcast messages, which as I
> > understand means ones with * as the target.
> >
> > If that's the case, what is the purpose of the
> > vendor.device.instance elements of the filter?  Surely a
> > broadcast message would always pass.
>
> The filter doesn't filter the contents of target=, it's the source= it
> filters
>
> So if target=* and filter is xpl-cmnd.tonyt.tts.*.tts.basic
>
> Then only tts.basic xpl-cmnd messages _from_ tonyt-tts.* will be
allowed
> thru
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
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