Re: [tcpdump-workers] In-kernel filtering

[Torsten Landschoff]

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:09:26PM +0000, ashley thomas wrote:
> My name is Ashley. I am doing work using libpcap-0.4. I am running it on
> linux 2.2.17-14. I want to know if there is any patch so that the BPF filters
> are evaluated in the kernel instead of the libpcap library.

The version of libpcap you are using is ancient. The current version, 
available via www.tcpdump.org, does in-kernel filtering and has a lot
of other improvements. Please try it out.

Greetings

        Torsten

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