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Date: 	Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:00:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Q Li <ecl6ql@sun.leeds.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: problem running tcpdump
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On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Q Li wrote:

> Please let me know if this is not the right list to ask the question.

  This should probably be in "questions"

> Just try to run tcpdump a newly installed freebsd machine
> (2.0.5-950622-snap) and I got
> 
> tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured
> 
> Can somebody give me a hint as to where to find  a fix?

  You need to build a kernel with the bpf driver.  The standard GENERIC 
kernel does have it.

Tom