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Re:Unlocking eBPF power by petethepig on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:15PM (#24721351)
Ironically, if you spell it out it only gets more confusing, because it does a lot more than just packer filtering these days.
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Re:Unlocking eBPF power by boston_sre87 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:23PM (#24721446)
Originally BPF aka the Berkeley packet filter was written to provide a faster/more lightweight alternative to tcpdump. People realized it was an awesome idea, so they started adding more functionality and it became eBPF/extended berkeley packet filter.
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