From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 16 6:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15A4E37B446 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 06:16:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 26641 invoked by uid 0); 16 Apr 2001 13:16:28 -0000 Received: from p3ee21610.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.16) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 16 Apr 2001 13:16:28 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03153 for stable@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:43:19 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:43:19 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: device not configured Message-ID: <20010416094318.H20830@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.org References: <200104160149.SAA24001@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200104160149.SAA24001@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:49:28PM -0700 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 18:49 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > It's an elderly web server. I wanted to try to diagnose some > comm problems, and tried to light up tcpdump. It claims my > (one and only) Ethernet interface is not configured. Could the message be misleading and it's bpf(4) that's missing? And if one's there, is it allocated / bound by some other process and you need more bpf devices or less processes using them? :) > # tcpdump > tcpdump: ix0: Device not configured > # exit What about truss(1) and friends? It would tell you which syscall fails, which parameters it had and what the actual return code was. This could give much more clues than a generic(?) "not configured" or "nope!". virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message