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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:09:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is there a Freebsd equivalent to this Linux header file
Message-ID:  <20051229150940.GI39217@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <1135865692.633.4.camel@localhost>
References:  <1135797945.645.8.camel@localhost> <20051228204256.GG39217@dan.emsphone.com> <1135865692.633.4.camel@localhost>

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In the last episode (Dec 29), Ray Seals said:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:42 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > That's probably a Linux-specific ioctl.  Chances are that FreeBSD's
> > ifconfig command will do what you want (so its sources are a good
> > place to start looking); what do you mean by "change it's operating
> > mode"?
> 
> Here is a snippet from the specs PDF:
> 
> Feature Summary   
...

none of which should require a custom ioctl, though.

> So, it can do a lot of cool things, but at this point I just wanted
> to set the box up as an in-line sniffer using this card for tcpdump
> only and the other built in nic (on the PC) as the management port.

So plug it in and run tcpdump :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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