From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 18:00:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA17079 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17063 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:00:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id BAA01045 ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:13:21 +0100 (BST) To: Branson Matheson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Violently pulling out my hair In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 1996 11:58:40 EDT." <199604081558.LAA02702@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 01:13:21 +0100 Message-ID: <1043.829008801@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Branson Matheson wrote in message ID <199604081558.LAA02702@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>: > Allright so next i tried... > > branson@garion #tcpdump ether host 08:00:09:d4:65:ff > tcpdump: ethernet address used in non-ether expression > This is really frustrating.. can any one help? What release of FreeBSD are you running? From a 2.1.0-STABLE system: gary@palmer:~> arp -a master.my.org (10.0.0.1) at 0:0:c0:5c:46:8e permanent gary@palmer:~> tcpdump ether host 0:0:c0:5c:46:8e tcpdump: listening on ed0 Seems to work fine for me! Do you have something weird happening in your shell to affect the command? That command looks right to me... Gary