tcpdump (/dev/bpf* permission) in FreeBSD-current

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Jul 7 08:16:33 PDT 2004


Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt at yahoo.com.hk> writes:

> Only /dev/bpf0 is there at boot time
> But when I run tcpdump, it automatically create
> /dev/bpf1 (I have multiple NIC).
> Running devfs at boot time cannot set the /dev/bpf1,
> which is not present.

Running devfs(8) at boot time will set rules that will be
automatically applied to bpf1 when it is created.  What do your devfs
rules look like?


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