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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@netvision.net.il>
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
Subject: RE: Debugging networking code 
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<<On Thu,  2 Feb 95 14:39:37 IST, "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@netvision.net.il> said:

> May be the new thing i writing now can be handy here?
> This is some kind of /dev/ip which allows you selectively get
> packets from net.

There is no reason to duplicate this functionality which is already
efficiently implemented by BPF.

-GAWollman

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