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From: cjk@omedsrvb.omed.pitt.edu (Carl Joel Kuzmich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tcpdump
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:37:27 GMT
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In article <4vrir5$io0@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J
Wunsch) writes:
|>csclailf@leonis.nus.sg (Lai L F) wrote:
|>
|>> When I try to use tcpdump, I got an error messages as follow:
|>> 
|>> tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured
|>> 
|>> How do I configure this device??
|>
|>pseudo-device bpfilter 4
|>
|>-- 
|>cheers, J"org
|>
|>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC:
|>JW11-RIPE
|>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
|>
|>

Why "4" and not "8" or some other value???

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