From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 28 11:34:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EF337B726 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2SJYM398684; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:34:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dennis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: # of bpf devices In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:49:53 CDT." <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:34:22 +0200 Message-ID: <98682.985808062@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes: >At 01:32 PM 03/28/2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010328133247.036d9370@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes: >> > >> >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. Well, if anybody but you had answered I would have fixed it right away, but since it would probably help you if I did so I morally can't defend to do it. I hope nobody else helps you either... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message