From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Apr 30 6:23:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf24.de (mail.surf24.de [212.62.192.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E3F14CD1 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 06:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de) Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf254.surf24.de [212.62.193.254]) by mail.surf24.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11120; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:23:20 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:17:24 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: How to get tcpdump working? To: Aron Green Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Andre Anneck In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 29 Apr, Aron Green wrote: > 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 It's a so called pseudo-device, and in the 3.1STABLE kernels, it's allready included in the GENERIC kernel-build-file. You just have to remove the comment in front of it. I think it's called "bpfilter" or "bpf". I remember 2.2.something being _very_ picky about the name (I only hat "bp" and wondered why nothing worked). cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message