Subject: Re: NIC w/ BPF in hardware
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@feyrer.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/09/2005 13:22:02
On Mar 7, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

>
> Maybe of interest to some:
>
> Announcement:  
> http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2004/11/msg00055.html
> Documentation: http://www.metanetworks.org/products.html
>
> Aparently there's a FreeBSD driver, either in the works or "already 
> there". For those that need it (and have the $5kUS for the card :).

It's not really "BPF in hardware".  It's "packet filtering in 
hardware".  The former would imply that it could interpret BPF virtual 
machine byte code directly.

-- thorpej