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. > virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 > Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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