From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 28 12:17:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC0B37B718 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2SKHhm83623; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:17:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: # of bpf devices Message-ID: <20010328121742.B83100@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <97519.985804357@critter> <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:49:53PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:49:53PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > >It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would it be > > >to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable somewhere? Are there > > >other caveats? > > > >It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done. > > I was hoping to get some useful insight before I looked into it..or if > there was a sound reason for not expanding them. Im hopeful someone > brighter will answer. You did. "pretty trival". I.E. will not take much work, and no good reason not to expand them. Since you've said so many times you can hack your own system, sounds like PHK told you what you needed to know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message