From owner-freebsd-net Fri Dec 13 5:58:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F79A37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F4043EC2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:58:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (localhost.he.iki.fi [127.0.0.1]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id gBDDwcuO072369; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:58:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3DF9E78E.50001@he.iki.fi> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:58:38 +0200 From: Petri Helenius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021117 X-Accept-Language: English [en],Finnish [fi] MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guy Helmer Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libpcap References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Guy Helmer wrote: >I use "sysctl debug.dbf_bufsize=131072" on my appliances to increase the >BPF buffer size to something more reasonable without having to directly >modify libpcap. > > > >Hope you're not disappointed to find out that modifying that parameter has > no effect when using applications which use libpcap since libpcap always sets the buffer size to 32768. (which is exactly the problem I'm complaining about) Pete > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message