Subject: Re: How to find socket buffer size
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Prasanta Sadhukhan <Prasanta.Sadhukhan@Sun.COM>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/05/2006 10:04:54
Manuel Bouyer wrote On 12/05/06 00:48,:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0530, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>How can I find the default maximum socket buffer size in NetBSD?
>>For example, in Solaris it's 64KB and can be found using
>>s = open ("/dev/udp", O_RDWR);
>>   if (s < 0) {
>>       return dflt;
>>   }
>>   strncpy (buf, "udp_max_buf", sizeof(buf));
>>   stri.ic_cmd = ND_GET;
>>   stri.ic_timout = 0;
>>   stri.ic_dp = buf;
>>   stri.ic_len = sizeof(buf);
>>   if (ioctl (s, I_STR, &stri) < 0) {
>>       value = dflt;
>>   } else {
>>       value = atoi(buf);
>>
>>I could not find any /dev/udp as such. Any clue?
> 
> 
> I think it's:
> sysctl kern.sbmax 
Thanks.. I knew that but the question is how to obtain the value
programatically?

Regards
Prasanta

>