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To: finrod@ewox.org (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav)
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Subject: Re: s/bpfilter/bpf/ 
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> While in Arnhem, I discussed renaming the bpfilter pseudo-device to
> bpf. There seemed to be agreement that it would be more consistent
> (amongst other items, the device nodes are named /dev/bpf*, and the
> man page is bpf(4)).

I agree that this change is overdue, but I also wonder whether or not
you could do this so that ``pseudo-device bpfilter'' would continue to
be a synonym for bpf.  It wouldn't appear in any documentation or be
suggested, but would at least continue to work for those with old
config files.

- Jordan

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