Re: [tcpdump-workers] BPF in hardware

2004-11-22 Thread Livio Ricciulli
Guy Harris wrote: On Nov 22, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Livio Ricciulli wrote: The idea is to automatically translate the BPF expressions passed to libpcap into MTP macrocode and load it into the card on the fly ___in_addition_to___ the normal BPF software matching. By "BPF expressions" do you

[tcpdump-workers] BPF in hardware

2004-11-22 Thread Livio Ricciulli
Hi, I was thinking of contributing some code to libpcap for interfacing to the MTP PCI cards (http://www.metanetworks.org/products/mtp.html). These newly developed Ethernet cards can perform packet matching at 1G (and soon 10G) wire-speed before they DMA the packets through the PCI bus to the host.