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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /dev/bpf0 not configured
Date: 29 Sep 1995 21:24:53 +0100
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Andile Mbatyoti <ccam@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote:
>I try to run tcpdump as root I get the reply
>
>/dev/bpf0: divice not configured.

Look into /sys/i386/conf/LINT (pseudo-device bpfilter).
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)