Is there a Freebsd equivalent to this Linux header file

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Dec 29 07:09:44 PST 2005


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 :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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