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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on Config bpf0
Date: 18 Feb 1996 01:34:44 +0100
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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jrs@tampa2.is.ge.com (Jim Smithson) writes:

>But I still cannot run tcpdump:
># tcpdump -i /dev/bpf0 host somehost
>tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured

>ifconfig shows the ix0 device is not in promiscous mode.

>I must be missing something. But what?


From the driver source (/sys/i386/isa/if_ix.c):

/*ZZZ no work done on this, this is just here to remind me*/
#include "bpfilter.h"
#if NBPFILTER > 0
#include <net/bpf.h>
#include <net/bpfdesc.h>
#endif /* NBPFILTER > 0 */ 


So obviously bpf is not supported by that particular driver.

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Patrick M. Hausen    Gerwigstr. 11    76131 Karlsruhe    pmh@islay.sub.org