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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: /dev/bpf* & tcpdump
Date: 10 Jul 1995 17:36:14 +0200
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Leslie Schaefer <2schaefe@rzdspc3.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>can anyone tell me if the standard FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 kernels
>have the needed drivers for tcpdump compiled into them. I've made the
>devices (/dev/bpf*) and called the prog. - only to receive the error
>message "device not configured".
They don't. You need to rebuild a kernel with
pseudo-device bpf 4 # <-- >= the number of network interface you've got
tschüß,
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)