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by wiresurfer 702 days ago
Hey Brendan,

> If your company is paying for commercial software that includes kernel drivers or kernel modules, you can make eBPF a requirement.

Windows soon, may still be atleast a year ahead. Would that be a fair statement? atleast being the operating keyword here.

Specifically in the context of network security software, for eBPF programs to be portable across windows/linux, we would need MSFT to add a lot more hooks and expose internal kernel stucts. Hopefully via a common libbpf definition. Otherwise, I fear, having two versions of the same product, across two OSs would mean more secuirty and quality issues.

I guess the point I am trying to make is, we would get there, but we are more than a few years away. I would love to see something like cilium on vanilla windows for a Software defined Company Wide network. We can then start building enterprise network secutiry into it. Baby steps!

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btw, your talks and blog posts about bpftools is godsent!