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Ironically, if you spell it out it only gets more confusing, because it does a lot more than just packer filtering these days.
by petethepig 6y ago
Ironically, if you spell it out it only gets more confusing, because it does a lot more than just packer filtering these days.
- boston_sre87 6y agoOriginally BPF aka the Berkeley packet filter was written to provide a faster/more lightweight alternative to tcpdump. People realized it was an awesome idea, so they started adding more functionality and it became eBPF/extended berkeley packet filter.