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authorXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2012-05-14 05:12:56 +0000
committerXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2012-05-14 05:12:56 +0000
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Merge from vendor branch: update libpcap to 1.2.1.
MFC after: 2 weeks
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@@ -63,13 +63,14 @@ added overhead (especially, for selective filters). Ideally, libpcap
would translate BPF filters into a filter program that is compatible
with the underlying kernel subsystem, but this is not yet implemented.
-BPF is standard in 4.4BSD, BSD/OS, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. DEC
-OSF/1/Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX uses the packetfilter interface but has
-been extended to accept BPF filters (which libpcap utilizes). Also, you
-can add BPF filter support to Ultrix using the kernel source and/or
-object patches available in:
-
- ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/net/bpfext42.tar.Z.
+BPF is standard in 4.4BSD, BSD/OS, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly
+BSD, and Mac OS X; an older, modified and undocumented version is
+standard in AIX. {DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64 UNIX} uses the
+packetfilter interface but has been extended to accept BPF filters
+(which libpcap utilizes). Also, you can add BPF filter support to
+Ultrix using the kernel source and/or object patches available in:
+
+ http://www.tcpdump.org/other/bpfext42.tar.Z
Linux, in the 2.2 kernel and later kernels, has a "Socket Filter"
mechanism that accepts BPF filters; see the README.linux file for