On 11 Feb 2006, at 00:08, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I have a SLES box on which I'm trying to run tcpdump. However, when I
> do
>> tcpdump -i eth0
>> I get
>> tcpdump: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
>> A little research shows that I need a kernel with CONFIG_PACKET
> enabled to allow tcpdump to work. The kernel on this box has
> CONFIG_PACKET set to m in the kernel config file.
>> So, what module do I load to enable CONFIG_PACKET? Or what else needs
> doing?
Found it (af_packet) - go back to sleep :-)
Niall
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