From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 08:21:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA19171 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19165 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA04987; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:21:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: Garrett Wollman cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcpdump / trafshow / ifconfig problem In-Reply-To: <9606201508.AA25988@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Never a good deed that goes unpunished... > > I just tried to run the port trafshow but when I do, it says: > > > trafshow: BIOCSETIF: ix0: Device not configured > > The `ix' driver doesn't support BPF, so those programs which use BPF > to examine traffic running through the system won't work with it. > (It's probably a pretty poor choice for any sort of network monitoring > anyway; the hardware just generally sucks.) > > -GAWollman Granted, the EtherExpress 16 is an old card, but it was available and works just fine otherwise. What NICs are highly regarded, price/performance wise for FBSD? -Dave