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Re: Berkley Packet Filter? (Or DHCP.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Fri Jul 14 00:51:05 1995
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 12:27:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
Cc: jered@vorlon.mit.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sVxSR-000143C@iiit.swan.ac.uk>
While talking about BPF, any reason for there not being something similar
under linux other than time and man power?
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
http://underground.org/
On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:47:50 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
> To: jered@vorlon.mit.edu
> Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Berkley Packet Filter? (Or DHCP.)
>
> > I'd like to use DHCP under Linux, but the only implementation that I have
> > found requires the Berkeley Packet Filter, which I have not been able to
> > find. Is there an implementation of the Berkeley Packet Filter for Linux?
> > Or, can you suggest a DHCP implementation that does not require it?
>
> There is a library for doing BPF under Linux (its part of the Linux
> tcpdump port). Functionality is the same but BPF lives in user space. As far
> as DHCP goes there is a bootpd with DHCP patches (not dynamic leases) floating
> around. This doesnt use BPF.
>
> Alan
>
