From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 25 17:22:22 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA18909 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 17:22:22 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA18902 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 17:22:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14381; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 02:22:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA05404; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 02:22:06 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA11060; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:25:23 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507251325.PAA11060@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: problem running tcpdump To: ecl6ql@sun.leeds.ac.uk (Q Li) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:25:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507251000.LAA08395@sun.leeds.ac.uk> from "Q Li" at Jul 25, 95 11:00:09 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 616 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Q Li wrote: > > Please let me know if this is not the right list to ask the question. This would rather belong to questions@freebsd.org. > Just try to run tcpdump a newly installed freebsd machine > (2.0.5-950622-snap) and I got > > tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured Look into the LINT file for how to configure the bpf devices. You need to build a custom kernel, they are not included in the GENERIC kernel. Refer to the FAQ (sect 6) on how to do that. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)