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