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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:04:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net (Gerhard Sittig)
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: device not configured
Message-ID:  <200104170704.AAA27890@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010416094318.H20830@speedy.gsinet> from Gerhard Sittig at "Apr 16, 1 09:43:19 am"

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As I recall, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 18:49 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
>> It's an elderly web server.  I wanted to try to diagnose some
>> comm problems, and tried to light up tcpdump.  It claims my
>> (one and only) Ethernet interface is not configured.
> 
> Could the message be misleading and it's bpf(4) that's missing?
> And if one's there, is it allocated / bound by some other process
> and you need more bpf devices or less processes using them? :)

No, I don't think so.  I can run tcpdump against lo0, but not ix0.
There are four bpfilters configured.

> What about truss(1) and friends?  It would tell you which syscall
> fails, which parameters it had and what the actual return code
> was.  This could give much more clues than a generic(?) "not
> configured" or "nope!".

I thought about that.  I'll have to build a kernel with KTRACE
enabled, I guess.

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