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Scope for porting to network processors

Scope for porting to network processors

Posted Mar 26, 2009 0:05 UTC (Thu) by Thalience (subscriber, #4217)
In reply to: Scope for porting to network processors by alex
Parent article: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

The difficulty of running the nftables VM on a specialized filtering processor would depend entirely on what is the native instruction set for said processor.


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Scope for porting to network processors

Posted Mar 28, 2009 20:03 UTC (Sat) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

It'd probably be more interesting to try to cross compile to the native instructions of such a processor.

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