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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!ctoriger From: ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Christopher T. Origer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: Configuring bpf device Date: 17 Dec 1995 16:46:21 GMT Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4b1hgt$j3s@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <4aojm5$ilh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4aqlan$1t8@parody.tecc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] James Raynard (james@parody.tecc.co.uk) wrote: : In article <4aojm5$ilh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, : thompson jeffrey w <jwthomp@sparc14.cs.uiuc.edu> wrote: : >I am attempting to write a packet filter using the bpf device : >in freebsd. However, I am getting device not configured errors. : Have you compiled bpf support into the kernel? : pseudo-device bpfilter 4 : will add support for 4 bpf devices (/dev/bpf[0-3]). : >In the man pages for tcpdump a program called pfconfig is mentioned : >but I have been unable to locate it. : Try looking on an Ultrix system 8-) (As stated on the man page, the : /dev/bpf? devices perform this function on BSD systems). : Cheers : James : -- : Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature' I do have bpf support compiled in. I can run tcpdump on sl0 but when I try the nic card (ix0) I get device ix0 not configured. What am I missing? Thanks, Chris