From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 6:41:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C5637B403 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 06:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA15218; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:32:44 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B1738302; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:28:47 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:28:47 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: "RAFT, MICHAEL E (SWBT)" Cc: Subject: Re: Multiple BPFs In-Reply-To: <0A658CB656B68B4589C7F937444155D401959FD9@TXSNA09MSGUSR03.ITServices.sbc.com> Message-ID: <20020606162629.Y58162-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, RAFT, MICHAEL E (SWBT) wrote: > Is there a way in FreeBSD 4.5 to initialize more than the standard 4 BPFs. > I have set up a FreeBSD box to run as a nessus scanner and frequently get > "no free bpf" warnings. I have tried putting a number after the > pseudo-device bpf line in my kernel config but that didn't work. Thanks in > advance.... > > Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > I'm not sure (i'm running fbsd 4.3), but man said that default is 16. Mayb you forgot something like this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV bpfXX I made 16 devices (bpf0-15) and simultaneously run 11 tcpdump's (some i'v already have in background for logging purposes)... Hopefully, this may help Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message