bpf kernel module
Vlad GURDIGA
gurdiga at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 22:23:47 UTC 2006
Hello,
I'm trying to keep very close touch with 6.1_STABLE cvsupping sources
once a week or even more often. I'm thinking of removing as much as
possible devices from the kernel loading them from /boot/loader.conf
instead, so I could rebuild and install them without a whole
kernel/world rebuild and reboot when sources change. I'm not sure this
is a correct way, any piece of advice regarding this would be highly
appreciated. :)
So, I've successfully done that with sound and network card drivers,
but did not succeed with removing bpf from the kernel. Booting a
kernel with no bpf support, and with
ng_bpf_load="YES" in my loader.conf, the pflogd fails to start with this error:
Nov 11 20:22:33 uxterm pflogd[10251]: Failed to initialize: (no
devices found) /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory
Nov 11 20:22:33 uxterm pflogd[10251]: Exiting, init failure
And, tcpdump also fails saying that "no suitable device found". Of
course there is no /dev/bpf0.
Is there any way to have the bpf0 device without booting a kernel with
bpf device included?
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