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> 	load due to bpf increases as the number of packets accepted
> 	by the filter increases.
> 
> 	load due to nit increases as the number of packets on the wire
> 	increases.
> 
> 	there was a usenix paper about this.

McCanne, S., and Jacobson, V.:
The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture.
Proceedings of the 1993 Winter USENIX Technical Conference (San Diego, CA,
Jan. 1993), USENIX.

Available from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/bpf-usenix93.ps.Z.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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