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--- www/60.html 2016/08/04 18:22:35 1.41
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on each fragment of an IPv4 packet going out on a
vlan(4)
interface.
+ Enabled device cloning for
+ bpf(4).
+ This allows the system to have just one bpf device node in /dev
+ that services all bpf consumers (up to 1024).
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@@ -167,6 +171,24 @@
The daemon could hang if it was idle for a long time.
Added the llprio option in
ifconfig(8).
+ Multiple programs that use
+ bpf(4)
+ have been modified to take advantage of
+ bpf(4)
+ device cloning by opening /dev/bpf0 instead of looping
+ through /dev/bpf* devices. These programs include
+ arp(8),
+ dhclient(8),
+ dhcpd(8),
+ dhcrelay(8),
+ hostapd(8),
+ mopd(8),
+ npppd(8),
+ rarpd(8),
+ rbootd(8), and
+ tcpdump(8).
+ The libpcap library
+ has also been modified accordingly.
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