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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to enable /dev/bpf0?? Date: 27 May 1995 20:31:42 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet News Service Lines: 15 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <3q7umu$mhm@imp.demon.co.uk> References: <3q6sd1$lcc@airhk.air.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: newnews.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pencotts.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) To: chris@airhk.air.org X-URL: news:3q6sd1$lcc@airhk.air.org chris@airhk.air.org (Chris Lo) wrote: >Sorry for my ignorance if it's document in FAQ, but I just can't find >it under my FAQ directory. How can I enable that so that tcpdump will >work? > Insert a line such as: pseudo-device bpfilter 4 in your kernel configuration file and re-compile. The '4' is the number of /dev entries you get - ie. number of simultaneous tcpdump, ipfw and other programs using bpf that you can run simultaneously.