May 15, 2003

bogon filter

/boh´gon fil'tr/ n.

Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets. See also bogosity, bogus.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:56 AM

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