Re: pcap-bpf and AIX odm related code

[Jean-Louis Charton <jean-louis.charton () oikialog com>]

BTW, does someone know why the number of BPF devices is limited to 4 (at least
on AIX)? Is there a technical reason for this ?

I've tried to add one more bpf device (/dev/bpf4) on an AIX 5.1 box. The device
configuration seems ok (i.e. the sysconfig() calls are successfull). I can
launch up to 4 tcpdump in parallel (that use /dev/bpf0 up to /dev/bpf3) but then
as soon as I launch a fifth tcpdump, the kernel generate a panic, dump a kernel
core and the machine leds display the "famous" 888 code ;-)

J-L



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