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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:22:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pseudo-device bpfilter and Ethernet card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970108202149.8085O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32D3E29B.59E2B600@bis.co.il>

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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Meir Dukhan wrote:

> Hy,
> 
> 
> >From the freebsd handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook44.html#52
> 
> > pseudo-device bpfilter number
> >	Berkeley packet filter. This pseudo-device allows network
> >	interfaces to be placed in promiscuous mode, 
> [snip]
> ...
> >	Not all network cards support this capability.
> 
> Is one experienced an ethernet card that doesn't support the bpfilter
> pseudo-device (and then tcpdump will be useless) ?

The EtherExpress 16's don't support it, at least in 2.1 (last time I had
an ix in a machine).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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