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From: rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: WD8003 Promiscuous mode, Berkeley Packet Filter, and tcpdump
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Date: 12 Mar 93 04:52:10 GMT
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rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes:
: rgrimes@acacia (Rodney W. Grimes) writes:
: : duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) writes:
: : : I have built a kernel with the berkeley packet filter included, by following
: : : the instructions in the bpf/README file of the tcpdump distribution.  Although
: : : I've got tcpdump more-or-less working, there are some loose ends that need
: : : tidying up.
: : 
: : Yep and you'll be the third person to do this work!  There is a very complete
: : set of patches and a new version of tcpdump on ref.tfs.com.  Look in ~davidg
: : for it.  If you can't find it there email to davidg@implode.rain.com and ask
: : him for it, or you can reply to me and ask me for it.
: : 
: I just went and checked that I could get BPF from ref.tfs.com, I can but
: things have changed do to usernames being removed.  To get the bpf package
: you need to get the following file:

I am posting this because I have gotten several mail messages that said you
could not get this file.  Well you can, just don't try to use ftp dir or ls
commands, they wont work.

Evedintly some one at ref.tfs.com has removed /bin/ls from the anon ftp area,
you can still get files, if you know the name and directory to get them from.

The name below may be slightly wrong, so try and mget bpf* from the directory,
I checked and it was there this afternoon.

: 
: 	ref.tfs.com:/usr/home/davidg/bpf-package.386bsd.tar
: 
: The ~davidg well not work anymore, sorry about any confusion on this out
: there.
: 
: : This work is based upon the lattest version of bpf available from lbl.gov
: : and supercedes the version supplied with the distribution in etcdist.
: : 
: : It includes a new if_we driver that has all sorts of clean up done.  
: : : 
: : : [stuff about the if_we driver deleted]
: : :
: --
: rgrimes@agora.rain.com