Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:02:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Don SmithTo: dirt@cs.unc.edu Subject: TCPDUMP note from Vern Paxon Bruce Mah writes: > > However, if you're using FreeBSD out of the box, you're likely getting > > burned by the completely undersized default kernel BPF buffers, something > > like 4 KB. We crank them into the 1+ MB range. > > Hmmm...interesting. Is this what the debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl is for? Yes, that's the one. Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:44:21 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Michele Clark To: mixxel@cs.unc.edu Subject: increasing buffer size In exp.script: BPF_BUFSIZE=131072 # increase tcpdump buffer size %{monitor}: sysctl -w debug.bpf_bufsize=%{BPF_BUFSIZE} -Michele