From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 17 0: 5: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B594D37B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27890; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:04:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200104170704.AAA27890@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: device not configured In-Reply-To: <20010416094318.H20830@speedy.gsinet> from Gerhard Sittig at "Apr 16, 1 09:43:19 am" To: Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net (Gerhard Sittig) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:04:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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