Solved FreeBSD 10.1 - Missing /dev/netmap

[BreakArms]

I'm trying to get Snort/DAQ working with Netmap support using FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE (AMD64). DAQ compiles successfully and includes the netmap module which indicates to me that netmap libraries are already included in the OS as I expected.

However, while Snort runs fine with libpcap 1.7.3, when I try to use netmap I get this:

ERROR: Can't initialize DAQ netmap (-1) - create_instance: Could not open /dev/netmap: No such file or directory (2)
Fatal Error, Quitting..

Sure enough, there is no /dev/netmap. Is there something I need to enable in rc.conf or otherwise to get /dev/netmap to appear? Or is there a different issue?

 

[junovitch@]

netmap(4) requires a device that is not part of the GENERIC kernel which can be viewed with sysctl kern.conftxt. You'll need to add this line into your kernel configuration and compile.

device netmap

Follow along with the procedures in the FreeBSD Handbook and they will walk you through compiling the custom kernel.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html

 

[BreakArms]

That did it, thank you junovitch! Snort's humming along fine with FreeBSD/netmap now.