Re: what is net-pf-17?

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:07:21 -0400


> I have a 2.0.36 kernel (which works with 2.3.*) which is using dhcp...
>
> I'm getting a message
> modprobe can't find net-pf-17
> and dhcp fails...
>
> What is net-pf-17?
>
> Is there a table of what net-pf-xx means? (I know appletalk and ipx are 4 and
> 5).
> Can more meaningful messages be displayed (this is fundamentally a redhat 5.2
> system).

net-pf-17 is af_packet. This is used by programs like trafshow, tcpdump
(not sure), etc.

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