Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail
From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: rarpd config question
Date: 28 Aug 1995 16:21:05 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <41sjch$rsk@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
References: <41qu4g$glv@a3bsrv.nai.net>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Keywords: rarpd 2.0.5R
Stan Voket <asv@gaboon.nai.net> wrote:
>Aug 27 19:04:08 europa rarpd[273]: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured
>
>and rarpd exits...
>
>What is /dev/bpf0 and how/why does one configure it?
The Berkeley Packet Filter device. It's among others used by
tcpdump(1).
You need to configure and build a new kernel (FAQ, section 6) with the
bpf devices enabled:
pseudo-device bpfilter 4 #Berkeley packet filter
--
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. ;-)