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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on Config bpf0
Date: 16 Feb 1996 22:04:56 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Jim Smithson
(jrs@tampa2.is.ge.com) had the courage to say:

: I've put the BPF device in the kernel file and remade the kernel
: pseudo-device   bpfilter        4       #Berkeley packet filter

: # nm /kernel | grep bpfilterattach
: f0132c90 T _bpfilterattach
: # ls -l /dev/bpf*
: crw-------  1 root  wheel   23,   0 Oct 10 09:51 /dev/bpf0

: But I still cannot run tcpdump:
: # tcpdump -i /dev/bpf0 host somehost
: tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured

: ifconfig shows the ix0 device is not in promiscous mode.

[chop]

: I must be missing something. But what?

Regrettably, the ix driver for the Intel EtherExpress 16 cards does
not have support for promiscuous mode or BPF.

-Bill

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