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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 18:08:27 +0000
From: Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il>
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Hy,


>From the freebsd handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook44.html#52

> pseudo-device bpfilter number
>	Berkeley packet filter. This pseudo-device allows network
>	interfaces to be placed in promiscuous mode, 
[snip]
...
>	Not all network cards support this capability.

Is one experienced an ethernet card that doesn't support the bpfilter
pseudo-device (and then tcpdump will be useless) ?

Tia 

	Meir