From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 22 16:24:12 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCD81566D; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA31980; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:23:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall tcpip.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:27:50 +1000." <99Jul23.070924est.40350@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:23:05 +0200 Message-ID: <31978.932685785@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <99Jul23.070924est.40350@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy writes: >"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >> The ultimate answer here is to make either bpf a loadable kernel module > >Given that BPF needs to get its hooks into _every_ network driver, >I'm not sure that this is practical. That is really a deficiency of our ethernet layer (on my todo-list way down there...) Each ethernet driver shouldn't have to know as much as it does about the input path for packets, or for that matter if bpf is there or not. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message