Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:22:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pseudo-device bpfilter and Ethernet card Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108202149.8085O-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32D3E29B.59E2B600@bis.co.il>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Meir Dukhan wrote: > 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) ? The EtherExpress 16's don't support it, at least in 2.1 (last time I had an ix in a machine). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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