Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:43:19 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: device not configured Message-ID: <20010416094318.H20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <200104160149.SAA24001@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:49:28PM -0700 References: <200104160149.SAA24001@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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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!".
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