From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 19:19: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx01-a.netapp.com (mx01-a.netapp.com [198.95.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D05837B401 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guy@netapp.com) Received: from frejya.corp.netapp.com (frejya.corp.netapp.com [10.10.20.91]) by mx01-a.netapp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/NTAP-1.2) with ESMTP id f5T2J3K13826; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cranford-fe.eng.netapp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by frejya.corp.netapp.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/NTAP-1.2) with ESMTP id f5T2J3l21102; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from guy@localhost) by cranford-fe.eng.netapp.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id TAA03266; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Guy Harris Message-Id: <200106290219.TAA03266@cranford-fe.eng.netapp.com> Subject: Re: how to compile bpf... To: rh@com-con.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME++ PL59 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 The same question was asked by Ralf Knapp - in fact, the text of the question appears to be identical to the text of your question - who sent his question to libpcap@ee.lbl.gov and tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org. The answer to that question was: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:34:10 -0500 From: Jon Dugan To: "Knapp, Ralf" Cc: libpcap@ee.lbl.gov, tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] droped packets ?! > how to increase the bpf buffer, or libpap buffer - You can set the BPF bufsize via sysctl: sysctl -w debug.bpf_bufsize=whatever See sysctl.conf(5) for more info about how to set this as part of the boot process. See sysctl(8) for more info on sysctl. and, given that your question was identical, the answer to your question is also identical - you don't have to recompile the kernel, just use "sysctl". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message