While catching up with e-mail this morning, I noticed that the OpenSolaris community is planning to integrate the Berkeley packet filter into opensolaris:
“This case seeks to build on the Crossbow (PSARC/2006/357[7]) infrastructure and provide a new (to OpenSolaris) mechanism for capturing packets: the use of the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF). The goal of this project is to provide a method to capture packets that has higher performance than what we have to offer today on Solaris (DLPI based schemes.) It also has the added benefit of increasing our compatibility with other software that has been built to use BPF.”
This is awesome news, and each month it seems there are fewer and fewer packages I have to bolt on to my OpenSolaris installations. Nice!