BPF comes to firewalls

Posted Feb 20, 2018 7:17 UTC (Tue) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: BPF comes to firewalls by epa
Parent article: BPF comes to firewalls

And the "B" stands for Berkely, where it originated. The Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter) is a bit light on details, but you will find them in the original paper (http://www.tcpdump.org/papers/bpf-usenix93.pdf).