[PATCH] ng_tag - new netgraph node, please test (L7 filtering possibility)

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 12 20:21:10 UTC 2006


On Monday 12 June 2006 02:57 pm, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> Vadim Goncharov wrote:
> > I hope that my explanation was helpful enough to understand :)
> > Also, if you will be using 7.0, include BPF_JITTER in your kernel
> > config as this will enable native code-compiling for bpf and
> > ng_bpf - this will speed things up.
>
> Am I the only one, that thinks BPF_JITTER is a stupid name? It
> suggest you add or enable jitter for the packet flow. No one wants
> jitter! It sucks. Why isn't it called simply BPF_JIT? Everyone
> knows what JIT stands for, JITTER on the other hand is to be
> avoided.

I am the guilty one and I hate the name myself. :-)  This feature was 
imported from WinPcap:

http://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs31/html/group__NPF__code.html#ga33

I didn't want another name for the same thing.

Jung-uk Kim


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