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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 1996 00:19:12 +0100 (MET)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        mattn@alpha.ctjms.com (Matt Nelson)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bpf
Message-ID:  <199612202319.AAA00252@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <01BBEE95.EC21DA80@mattn.ctjms.com> from Matt Nelson at "Dec 20, 96 04:50:35 pm"

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> I am trying to run several programs for network monitoring, but when I try to run them they tell me /dev/bpf0 not configured. I have read in the tcpdump man page that it requires permissions??
> 
> There is a device bpf0, and I can not find any info on configuring this device.
> Any help is apprietiated.

You have to build a new kernel with the config line

pseudo-device bpfilter 4      # 4 is sufficient for most cases  

> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> Matt Nelson
> Companion Technologies of MS
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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