Date: Thu, 10 Aug 95 23:37 CDT From: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting tcpdump to work with the BPF Message-ID: <m0sglqG-000NAyC@simon.chi.il.us>
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> From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> > Subject: Re: Getting tcpdump to work with the BPF > To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) > Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 21:12:50 -0700 (PDT) > Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > > In article <406pje$3tu@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, > > Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: > > >You're not missing anything: it's the Intel EtherExpress 'ix' driver > > >that's missing something. It doesn't yet include BPF support. > > > > Although I know nothing about the EtherExpress in particular, I know what > > BPF needs; these patches *should* do the trick. > > > > Except they fail to put the card into promiscous mode :-(. > > Some one else has been passed work passed to me that had some rather serious > lock up bugs and is working on this. I hope they pick this bit up here, > as this looks rather clean as far as the tap off. > > Putting in EEXP16 into and out of promiscous mode is no simple thing to > do though, and I am reasonably sure that is where the bugs in the other > patches sent to me are at. > Does anyone have the docs for this card? I've got on to hack and test with but no docs to start hacking from. Steve Piette Applied Computer Technology steve@simon.chi.il.US. 7N852 Phar Lap Drive (708) 513-6920 St. Charles, IL 60175-6868
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