From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 16:27:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E255237B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:27:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from unisys (Windozzze [192.168.8.2]) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA40146 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:26:58 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from matt@researcher.com) From: "Matt Rudderham" To: Subject: Question about MAKEDEV bpf devices Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:26:05 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HI, I have a problem? with bpf. When I run vertain application which use the bpf whether is be tcpdump to monitor traffic on an interface or nmap to scan a node, lately I've been getting bpf4 device not found, or today bpf5 device not found. I don't get these everytime, but just lately, when I got the message bpf4, I didn't think much of it, I went to /dev and did ./MAKEDEV bpf4 and it worked no prob, then today it happend with bpf5 again, this worked, but I suspect there is something going on which is tying up devices bpf0 - bpf3 which were initially created. Is there anyway to check if something is hogging them? I took a look at the running processes, and nothing popped out, should I look closer? Any help would be appreciated, Thanks in advance. - Matthew Rudderham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message