[tcpdump-workers] Losing BPF's

2007-02-16 Thread Jon Steel
Hello I have found a potential bug in libpcap on OpenBSD and likely FreeBSD as well. If you simultaneously open several programs that open pcap connections, you can cause the system to lose track of some of its BPF's. When you close all the pcap connections some of the BPF's may report that they a

[tcpdump-workers] Losing BPF's

2007-02-16 Thread Jon Steel
Hello I have found a potential bug in libpcap on OpenBSD and likely FreeBSD as well. If you simultaneously open several programs that open pcap connections, you can cause the system to lose track of some of its BPF's. When you close all the pcap connections some of the BPF's may report that they a