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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:04:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>
To:        lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   Re: Violently pulling out my hair
Message-ID:  <199604101204.IAA12187@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <199604100806.KAA12332@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 10, 96 10:07:25 am

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> > 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

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