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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tcpdump /dev/bpf0 not configured ? 2.1.5 Date: 15 Oct 1996 00:01:37 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <53ugoh$e2a@synge.maths.tcd.ie> References: <stanbDz8n4x.AC0@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: synge.maths.tcd.ie stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) writes: > The man page says something about having a packet filter device >built inot the kernel to make tcpdump work. Is this not in by default ? >Do i need to recompile the kernel to get this to work ? The GENERIC kernel seems to contain mainly hardware support. If you add the line pseudo-device bpfilter 4 #Berkeley packet filter and recompile you'll be fine. David.