Hi, I wanted to know what was the restriction on BPF devices and how to possibly go around it. We are currently running a 4.8 GENERIC.MP system with 3 dhcrelay processes (and would need to run more very soon), along with ladvd daemon for CDP and they are consuming pretty much all of the 10 BPF devices that I have read the system gives by default.
#fstat|grep bpf _dhcp dhcrelay 20698 4 / 52709 crw------- rw bpf8 _dhcp dhcrelay 448 4 / 52708 crw------- rw bpf7 _dhcp dhcrelay 25248 4 / 52707 crw------- rw bpf6 root ladvd 20897 9 / 52702 crw------- rw bpf1 root ladvd 20897 10 / 52703 crw------- rw bpf2 root ladvd 20897 11 / 52704 crw------- rw bpf3 root ladvd 20897 12 / 52705 crw------- rw bpf4 root ladvd 20897 13 / 52706 crw------- rw bpf5 root ladvd 20897 14 / 52710 crw------- rw bpf9 _pflogd pflogd 6391 3 / 52701 crw------- rw bpf0 root pflogd 1561 3 / 52701 crw------- rw bpf0 Is there any way to increase that number and if so, would this be a bad practice? If need be I can always stop ladvd, but ideally we'd rather have it on. Thanks, Steve Johnson
