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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!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!parc!fenner From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Etherload, bpf, nocol etc., how? Date: 6 Nov 1996 20:12:39 GMT Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 13 Message-ID: <55qrfn$j39@news.parc.xerox.com> References: <55cvaf$hfn@chenab.lums.edu.pk> NNTP-Posting-Host: crevenia.parc.xerox.com In article <55cvaf$hfn@chenab.lums.edu.pk>, Sohail Aslam <aslam@lums.edu.pk> wrote: >% ./etherload -d /dev/bpf0 >debug: Checking for devices: /dev/bpf0 >etherload: BIOCSETIF: Device not configured I've never used etherload, but this error indicates that etherload is trying to use the BIOCSETIF ioctl to tell bpf which interface to use, and bpf is saying it's invalid. Is there a switch to etherload to give it the interface name? Perhaps you really want "-d ed0" or whatever, instead of "-d /dev/bpf0". Bill