Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 01:45:16 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@netwalk.com> To: Roman Katsnelson <roman@atlas-design.net> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sniffer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812030144170.852-100000@insomnia.local.net> In-Reply-To: <3665A44D.C8DDB6A@atlas-design.net>
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> No, I was saying that we already have a custom kernel. And it was kind > of a pain to compile, and it finally works and I'd just rather not touch > it. But I guess I *could* keep it around anyway. I don't know. But do I > understand correctly, tcpdump doesn't need any additions to the kernel? > It just needs to be setuid root? No - tcpdump requires that the NIC be in promiscous mode. You need to enable bpfilter in the kernel - there just isn't any way around it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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