Subject: running out of BPF devices
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/13/2006 11:41:07
Hi!
I recently updated to nmap 4.01 and have since then the following problem:
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Starting Nmap 4.01 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (fxp0). A possible
cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see
http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html).
QUITTING!
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..so I raised the number of bpf's from 8 to 16 and recompiled the
kernel. However, I don't know what to do exactly with MAKEDEV. The
bpf-section of MAKEDEV looks like this:
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bpf)
mkdev bpf c 23 0
lndev bpf bpf0
;;
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Should I modify this, or is that irrelevant?
That's a i386 NetBSD 3.0 RC1.
Thank you very much,
Petar