On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:11:06PM -0700, Anthony D. Minkoff wrote: > I'm implementing several programs that use libpcap to monitor and > analyze network traffic. I understand that each of these programs uses > a BPF device, so that the number of such processes I can have running > on a system concurrently is limited by the number of BPF devices I have > on the system. By default, this is 4. [snip]
More of a FreeBSD kernel question, really. In -CURRENT, bpf is auto-cloning, so there is no need to do anything further. In the case of -STABLE, it may even be as simple as running /dev/MAKEDEV to create more /dev/bpf* device nodes. You should be able to bump up the number of bpf instances in your kernel configuration. BMS - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
