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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:08:31 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   tcpdump / trafshow / ifconfig problem
Message-ID:  <9606201508.AA25988@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960619154636.904A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960619154636.904A-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>

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<<On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 16:22:01 -0700 (PDT), Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> said:

> Never a good deed that goes unpunished...
> I just tried to run the port trafshow but when I do, it says:

>   trafshow: BIOCSETIF: ix0: Device not configured

The `ix' driver doesn't support BPF, so those programs which use BPF
to examine traffic running through the system won't work with it.
(It's probably a pretty poor choice for any sort of network monitoring
anyway; the hardware just generally sucks.)

-GAWollman

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