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Re: dumpcap and bpf assembler
From: Sake Blok <sake () euronet nl>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 22:59:17 +0200
On 28 mei 2015, at 23:52, Guy Harris wrote:
On May 27, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Sake Blok <sake () euronet nl> wrote:I believe that anything the BPF engine can do can be accomplished by using a capture filter expressionNo.
Oops, mis formulated what I wanted to say. I meant to say that I believed that any data in the packet that BPF can look at, can be looked at by using specific filter expressions.
For one thing, a BPF program can return different non-zero values based on the packet contents, so that, for example, somebody could have a bigger snapshot length for some packet types than others (somebody asked about that somewhere - they wanted a bigger snapshot length for DNS packets). That's not supported in capture filter expressions - those expressions evaluate to a Boolean value, so they either match (returning a single snapshot length) or fail to match.
That is exactly the use case I had for a BPF compiler when I discussed this with Steve McCanne at Sharkfest a couple of years ago.
For another thing, as Richard noted, there are some special tests in the Linux BPF engine that aren't currently supported by capture filter expressions.
I was not aware of that. Thanks for the insight! :-) Cheers, Sake ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: dumpcap and bpf assembler Richard Stearn (May 28)
- Re: dumpcap and bpf assembler Guy Harris (May 28)
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- Re: dumpcap and bpf assembler Richard Stearn (May 27)
- Re: dumpcap and bpf assembler Sake Blok (May 27)