On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Steven Ross wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation of the /dev directory. Confirmed everything you said and it does show there /dev/bpf0 to /dev/bpf6.
bpf6? Initially, only 5 BPF devices are created; if they're all busy, the BPF driver will create more - but they won't get their ownership or permissions changed automatically. (Ideally, there would be a /dev/bpf cloning device, so only it would need to have its ownership and permissions changed, and libpcap would just open that to get a new BPF instance, but nobody's made a cloning BPF device yet.)
> So, it looks like it meets the requirement you mentioned, doesn't it?
Yes.
1) What does the command "id" print?
2) What does the command "ls -l /dev/bpf*" print?
