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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:58:38 +0200
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libpcap
Message-ID:  <3DF9E78E.50001@he.iki.fi>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212130743270.3593-100000@magellan.palisadesys.com>

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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

> 
>



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