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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:28:47 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
To:        "RAFT, MICHAEL E (SWBT)" <mr4785@sbc.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Multiple BPFs
Message-ID:  <20020606162629.Y58162-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <0A658CB656B68B4589C7F937444155D401959FD9@TXSNA09MSGUSR03.ITServices.sbc.com>

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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
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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


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