BPF now integrated into SunOS 5

[Darren Reed <Darren.Reed () Sun COM>]

After around 17 years of being out in the cold, BPF is now integrated into
the SunOS kernel. At long last it is no longer necessary to use binary
patches on a SunOS kernel or do the filtering in userland. BPF can be
found in Solaris Express Community Edition build 125 onwards and in
upcoming releases of OpenSolaris.

It will take a little bit longer to update the version of libpcap that Sun
ships, as part of SFW, to start using BPF. From my testing, the libpcap
that is distributed via tcpdump.org will automatically discover and use
the BPF module.

Darren

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