From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 05:03:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA28813 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA28805 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA12187; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:04:22 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199604101204.IAA12187@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Violently pulling out my hair To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:04:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199604100806.KAA12332@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 10, 96 10:07:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Allright so next i tried... > > > > branson@garion #tcpdump ether host 08:00:09:d4:65:ff > > tcpdump: ethernet address used in non-ether expression > > > > This is really frustrating.. can any one help? > > This looks to me like tcpdump is going for the wrong interface. The > message tells you that you can only use this option on an Ethernet > or FDDI interface. Assuming that you are really trying to trace an > Ethernet interface (say, ed0), try: > > tcpdump -i ed0 ether host 08:00:09:d4:65:ff That did work.. thanks... I am not sure why it needs the ethernet interface to be specified... but I will do it in the future. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson