On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:59:22 +1000 Darren Reed <darr...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > It would be good to have some general purpose coprocessor (for > > walking IPv6 header chain and other operations), but that would > > probably be difficult to agree and standardise amongst the > > vendors. > > Which speaks to BPF needing new instructions or a new instruction set > that can > handle those tasks. Many many years ago I already suggested the limited-duration "LOOP" instruction as a means to handle IPv6 chains in a way that doesn't lead to deadlocks/etc by having a generic loop ability. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-October/043602.html If you want to support 'v6 better, maybe take a look at that? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
