On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:26:09PM -0500, Branson Matheson wrote:
> > Nessus has a workaround, which basically opens one bpf and shares it,
> > but it's far from being efficient. What I suggest is that you download
> > the latest version 1.3.x from CVS and read nessus-libraries/README.BPF
> > which basically will tell you how to create a lots of /deb/bpf (I
> > suggest 100, you should at least have 42). Once this is done, the
> > configure script will consider that you have enough /dev/bpf's and
> > won't compile the inefficient workaround.
>
> This didn't solve the problem. Also .. that readme is not in the
> nightly tarball? Can't CVS where I am right now .. but I will when
> I get home to check there.
In the version you have (1.3.4) the workaround is always enabled. Modify
nessus-libraries/include/config.h and remove HAVE_DEV_BPFN, then
recompile nessus-libraries.
-- Renaud
