The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
bogon filter
/boh'gon fil'tr/ 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.