odd tcpdump output w/ 6.0-BETA2 ...

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 04:15 pm, Pieter de Boer wrote:
> Matthew Grooms wrote:
> >>> Is anyone else seeing this issue? I get useless output from
> >>> tcpdump ( no header or protocol decode ) but only when I
> >>> specify a filter on the command line.
> >>> listening on xl0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96
> >>> bytes 11:33:32.920031 [|ether]
> >>> 11:33:35.203998 [|ether]
> >>
> >> I've seen this too and heard from someone else with the same
> >> problem. Both 6.0-BETA2 systems. I upgraded mine to a newer
> >> version of 6.0-BETA2, using cvsup, but can't remember nor test
> >> (at least during this week) if that fixed the problem.
> >
> > Did you make modifications or are were you running GENERIC? The
> > only modifications I made to my kernel were to disable IPV6 and
> > to enable pf, pflog, ALTQ and FAST_IPSEC.
>
> I've made quite some changes, yes: removing drivers I don't need,
> adding pf.. Doubt it's a problem in the kernel configuration,
> sounds more like a problem in libpcap or bpf..

It should be fixed by this commit:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/bpf.c.diff?r1=1.156&r2=1.157

MFC:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/net/bpf.c.diff?r1=1.153.2.2&r2=1.153.2.3

Therefore, it will be available from BETA3.

Jung-uk Kim