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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:18:46 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpdump (/dev/bpf* permission) in FreeBSD-current
Message-ID:  <20040707141846.GB57155@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040706185701.13649.qmail@web51804.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <444qolxmrz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040706185701.13649.qmail@web51804.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 07), Patrick Dung said:
> Only /dev/bpf0 is there at boot time
> But when I run tcpdump, it automatically create
> /dev/bpf1 (I have multiple NIC).
> Running devfs at boot time cannot set the /dev/bpf1,
> which is not present.

Devfs rules use wildcard matches:

   path pattern
          Matches any node with a path that matches pattern.  The
          latter is interpreted as a glob(3)-style pattern.

So just use bpf* instead of bpf0 in your devfs rule.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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