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To: "Sichao Wang" <wangs@ttc.com>
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Subject: Re: Question on TCPDUMP with FreeBSD 
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From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
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"Sichao Wang" writes:

>      Just addtional info here, I checked the man page for tcpdump,
>      it said " onece super user put the host in promiscuos mode using
>      pfconfig(8) ...".  But there is no executible pfconfig in the
>      BSD (i also checked the package list).

pfconfig(8) is a DEC-ism.  Don't worry about it unless you're running Ultrix 
or OSF/1 (er, Digital UNIX).

What my tcpdump manpage says is (in part):

     Under  Ultrix and Digital UNIX: Once the
     super-user  has  enabled  promiscuous-mode  operation  using
     pfconfig(8),  any user may run tcpdump.  Under BSD: You must
     have read access to /dev/bpf*.

(Not sure how to get you up and running though.)

Bruce.




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