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From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring /dev/bpf0
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:43:32 +0000
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Bob Fowler wrote:
> 
> When I try to execute tcpdump the program
> complains that I haven't configured /dev/bpf0.
> I've looked at the man pages for both tcpdump
> and bpf but didn't see a solution to my problem..
> 
> What do I have to do to the system to get tcpdump to
> run?????
If I recall correctly, you must enable this in the kernel. Have a look
in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (I think that is right).

Steve