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Re: Berkley Packet Filter? (Or DHCP.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Fri Jul 14 02:21:09 1995
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:46:26 -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: <m0sWSgG-00013zC@iiit.swan.ac.uk>
Poit taken. Thanx Alan.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
http://underground.org/
On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
> BPF in user space is fast enough for a fast machine to capture a full ethernet
> (10Mb/second). It has performance costs (more context switches/copies) but
> I felt (and feel) its best in user space. In the days of a VAX11/780 the rules
> where a little different.
>
> Alan
>
