Re: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org

[Rick <cr22rc2 () gmail com>]

Not what I wanted to hear.  I don't think there is a config file for this. But 
thanks a bunch for replying.

Guy Harris wrote:
> On May 13, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Rick wrote:
>
> > AIX libpcap 9.8-2 seems to create these when it's loaded. Is there 
> > some way to configure it to create more of these  ?
>
> You might have to ask IBM that.
>
> Somebody contributed to tcpdump.org's libpcap code to create those 
> devices; that code has a #define for the number of minor devices, which 
> is passed to the genminor() routine in AIX. I don't know whether IBM's 
> libpcap has that number compiled in or whether there's a configuration 
> file that lets you specify the maximum number of minor devices.
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