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Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

Posted Apr 6, 2009 15:49 UTC (Mon) by kanchev (guest, #42519)
In reply to: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine by mjcoder
Parent article: Nftables: a new packet filtering engine

Why not LLVM? It's not just a VM, it's a compiler framework. You'll just need to develop a proper frontend which parses the nftables syntax and a backend which generates bytecode for the kernel VM. As a bonus you'll get the LLVM optimizations.


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