From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 18:19:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10409 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10395 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from WonK.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU (rob@WonK.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU [147.41.41.102]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA02951 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 17:53:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rob@localhost) by WonK.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA05664; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:50:20 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: WonK.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU: rob owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:50:06 +1100 (EST) From: Rob Wise X-Sender: rob@WonK.hobart.TASed.EDU.AU To: Doug White cc: "Jay D. Nelson" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need pointer to docs. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-WonK: Hmm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Jay D. Nelson wrote: > > > Thanks. I couldn't find pfconfig on mine either. (2.1.5) How, then, do I > > configure /dev/bpf0 for use with tcpdump? tcpdump complains about 'device > > not configured /dev/bpf0'? Or does tcpdump automatically make the bpf(4) > > calls if the interface supports promiscuous mode? > > You need to add > > pseudo-device bpfilter 4 > > to your kernel config & recompile. If you need more than 4 filters you > can increase the number. Also remember to use the MAKEDEV script in /dev to make the actual /dev/bpfx devices if you haven't already done that (I missed the first posting). Rob