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 -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson
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