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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        rwatson@freebsd.org (Robert Watson)
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ether matching in ipfw??
Message-ID:  <200005021705.KAA02870@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000501221417.18064G-100000@fledge.watson.org> from Robert Watson at "May 1, 2000 10:18:35 pm"

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Robert Watson writes:
> One advantage to a BPF-like approach would be that you could imagine a
> BPF->native code compiler, instead of a BPF execution vm in kernel, giving
> performance close to ipfw, if not better, when optimized.  These custom
> filtering modules built from userland rulesets could also be inserted
> into the graph as needed.

See also..

  http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~engler/dpf.html

-Archie

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