Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:55:25 -0500 From: Charles Owens <cowens@greatbaysoftware.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libnet_get_hwaddr() failing with FreeBSD 8 Message-ID: <4B69E2BD.1010906@greatbaysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <4B679AED.9040308@greatbaysoftware.com> References: <4B679AED.9040308@greatbaysoftware.com>
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Charles Owens wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working with some code (snippet below) that fails with > libnet_get_hwaddr() function (it returns false). The code works fine > under 7.x but not with 8.0 . > > Any thoughts as to what might be going on? > Issue solved. I had been building the libnet port within a jail... and if it can't find /dev/bpf0 then it compiles in dummy code for a number of functions. Building libnet in a non-jail setting is fine. The final solution for us was to tweak devfs in the jail so /dev/bpf0 _is_ present. Charles Owens Great Bay Software, Inc.
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