On 5/08/11 01:46 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
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That could, in theory, be fixed - for example, BSD/OS's BPF interpreter had an
instruction that would do IPv6 extension header parsing
How much interest is there in that?
And what would the functional requirements be?
I've written a prototype BPF instruction that is a "search for header X"
that seems to work. This takes the loop out of BPF and puts it into the
driver, which has is a positive for both performance and validation.
Darren
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