From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 29 11:50:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from sheep.pinkle.com (sheep.pinkle.com [199.227.26.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13A8315203 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from starhawk@pinkle.com) Received: from localhost (user: 'starhawk', uid#1000) by sheep.pinkle.com with ESMTP id <43130-302>; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:03:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:03:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Aron Green X-Sender: starhawk@sheep.pinkle.com To: Andre Anneck Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get tcpdump working? In-Reply-To: <199904291836.UAA13100@bbaer.muenster.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org bf I believe is berkeley packet filter.. its an option in your kernel, you must compile that pseudo-device into your kernel in order to use it.. try grepping your LINT for bf Aron On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Andre Anneck wrote: > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:47:00 +0200 > From: Andre Anneck > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: How to get tcpdump working? > > Hi there, > > ...i tried now for a while to get more information about how tcp/ip > really works... and what goes wrong where when I do certain > routings. Almost everywhere in the FAQ's and Handbooks i read > about tcpdump. The man page about tcpdump is although pretty > neat to read... but every time I try to utilize tcpdump I get the > complaint about the device /dev/bf* is not configured. > :-( > > Thus I went searching for hint how to enable this device... but failed. > > Can someone pick me up here and point me into the right direction? > > > The UORMSS - Source Net > http://www.anneck.de/rmss > ------------------------------------- > ICQ# 1339921 | Home: http://anneck.de > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message