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So the Berkeley Packet Filter is now being used for packet filtering? What a wonderful development! What will they think of next? :)
by comex 9y ago
So the Berkeley Packet Filter is now being used for packet filtering? What a wonderful development! What will they think of next? :)
- metalliqaz 9y agoYes the title caught me off guard as well. As a BSD user for many years, it is strange to think of it as "new".
- bodyfour 9y agoeBPF is far evolved from "classic" BPF, though. There is a historical relationship (hence the name) but they're very different animals at this point. Also, the traditional use of BPF wasn't to filter network traffic, but only to sieve data flowing to userland tools like tcpdump.