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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:49:48 +0100
From:      "Loris Degioanni" <loris@netgroup-serv.polito.it>
To:        "Stefan Esser" <se@FreeBSD.org>, "Guy Harris" <gharris@flashcom.net>
Cc:        "Matt Dillon" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "Dragos Ruiu" <dr@kyx.net>, <tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org>, <ethereal-dev@ethereal.com>, <snort-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, <tech@openbsd.org>, "Stefan Esser" <se@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   R: [tcpdump-workers] Re: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Fwd: kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo !!?!?
Message-ID:  <004001c06358$37cc9480$016464c8@lorix>
References:  <0012072118150Q.09615@smp.kyx.net> <200012080547.eB85lKc17216@earth.backplane.com> <20001207233958.C352@quadrajet.flashcom.com> <20001208003839.A352@quadrajet.flashcom.com> <20001209142132.A822@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org>

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> On 2000-12-08 00:38 -0800, Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net> wrote:
> > (Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD have the maximum buffer size for BPF as
512KB
> > in the top of the CVS tree; NetBSD still has it as 32K.)
>
> You can change both the default and maximum BPF buffer sizes at
> run time (affecting an subsequent open()) in FreeBSD:
>
> # sysctl -w debug.bpf_bufsize=32768 debug.bpf_maxbufsize=4194304
>
> makes the default buffer size 32K and limits the size to 4MB, for
> example.

Notice however that in pcap-bpf.c, pcap_open_live()  forces the buffer
size to 32K through an IOCTL. This means that the sysctl is overridden
if BPF is used throug libpcap.

Loris.








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