From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 28 13:40:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5836337B71B; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24167; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:42:44 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010328165743.03e98220@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:07 -0500 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: # of bpf devices Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010328121742.B83100@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com> <97519.985804357@critter> <5.0.0.25.0.20010328144755.01fd9eb0@mail.etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:17 PM 03/28/2001, David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:49:53PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > >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. > >You did. "pretty trival". I.E. will not take much work, and no good >reason not to expand them. Since you've said so many times you can hack >your own system, sounds like PHK told you what you needed to know. What a helpful bunch. thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message