BPF comes to firewalls

Posted Feb 20, 2018 13:40 UTC (Tue) by kooky (subscriber, #92468)
Parent article: BPF comes to firewalls

I thought nftables ruleset already used BPF?

I've been using nftables and find it just works now I've got the hang.

Tim

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Posted Feb 21, 2018 0:20 UTC (Wed) by florianfainelli (subscriber, #61952) [Link] (1 responses)

You would think it would, but this was actually a custom VM, Pablo just posted patches to do exactly that though:

Posted Feb 21, 2018 13:26 UTC (Wed) by pomac (subscriber, #94901) [Link]

I find this really interesting, I've wondered and tried to push a change to bpf for a while but =)

Anyway, for those that want to follow the threads in a easier manner: