Re: tcpdump : unsupported socket type
Thierry Danis (danis@sagem.fr)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:40:30 +0200
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 07:40:34PM +0000, Massoud Asgharifard wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Thierry Danis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have trouble running tcpdump on my home box (and only on this one) :
> >
> > 'tcpdump -i eth0' or 'tcpdump -i eth1' says :
> > tcpdump: socket: unsupported socket type
> >
> > I'am quite sure that I have the same .config file here as at work.
> > The only difference is that my home machine has 2 ethernet cards,
> > with IP forwarding enabled.
> >
> > Any clues ?
>
> perhaps you've not insmod'ed af_packet.
> --Masu
> "Massoud Asgharifard"
>
Thank's for your replies. Indeed, I had compiled af_packet
as module at home, and statically at work. So, it seems that
the tcpdump package from RH 6.0 needs to be updated to be
able to insmod af_packet when needed.
A+,
--
Thierry Danis
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