Re: No space for further MAC prefixes

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:37:16AM -0300, sgarcia wrote:
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> Hi everyone!
>
> Using nmap4.11 (under Linux) with /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes from 
> nmap-4.20ALPHA7 distribution leads to nmap reporting this error:
> "No space for further MAC prefixes from nmap-mac-prefixes.  Increase 
> MacTable.table_capacity"
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> This is due to nmap4.11 MACLookup.cc file containing:
>       "MacTable.table_capacity = 9521"
> And nmap-4.20ALPHA7's nmap-mac-prefixes file being 9570 lines long.
>
> If I increase MacTable.table_capacity to 9570 everything goes fine.

Good point.  With the recent ALPHA versions, it is set to 19037.
Since it grows by about a thousand per year, that ought to last us
quite some time.  I've also added a warning to the code to tell us
next time we exceed 80% of the capacity.

Cheers,
-F

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