From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 13:28:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D2114D3F for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA84706; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:28:27 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: nathan Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: berkeley packet filter doesn't work?? Message-ID: <20000131132827.B83695@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3895FD1F.D204FF6E@ksu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3895FD1F.D204FF6E@ksu.edu>; from beemern@ksu.edu on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:22:39PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:22:39PM -0600, nathan wrote: > all i'm wanting to do is scan the traffic of the approximate 20 machines > that we have connected through a 100 mbit/s 3com switch The point of a switch is to prevent data from being sent to machines that have no need for it. There's no way for bpf to show you packets that never come down the wire to your machine. I've never operated a switch myself. Maybe there's a way to tell it that a certain port should get all of the packets, whether they're destined for that machine or not. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message