From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jan 27 11:26:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27728 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27721 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA124794084; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:34:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:34:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Ian Smith Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device error In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ian Smith wrote: > Just what I did. Even so, if you want to use more than one bpf at a > time, you'll have to use MAKEDEV to create bpf1, bpf2, bpf3 .. or at > least that's what I had to do here (2.2.6-RELEASE). I didn't discover > this for months, till one day I wanted to run tcpdump on two interfaces. This was fixed in revision 1.174 of src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV by obrien. This change was post-{2.2.8,3.0}-RELEASE, so unless you keep your sources up to date, this behavior will effect you. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message