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Date:      Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:13:39 +0100
From:      Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
To:        dlr@netcom.com (dlr)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BPF 
Message-ID:  <17821.793440819@utis156.cs.utwente.nl>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 21 Feb 1995 10:06:14 PST

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On Tue, 21 Feb 1995 10:06:14 PST, dlr wrote:
> The Question of the day is:
> 
> What is bpf, and why is both the ethernet and the ppp interface attached to
> it? Is this part of the problem?

No. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter.  It's a pseudo device
which can be used for capturing packets from your interfaces.  See
also `man 1 tcpdump'.

Andras



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