On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:03:18AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:

 > I'm not sure that DPF is what you want to do with BPF - typically a BPF
 > filter is "compiled" and put in place as a static filter for a program
 > such as dhcpd, rarpd, etc.  DPF is more than just "covert opcodes into
 > machine code".

I'm merely using BPF as the packet matching engine.  I have a string
of BPF programs which each get a crack at the packet until one of them
returns TRUE.

It's these small BPF programs that I want to compile into object code
after running them through the validator.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>