[ILUG] Re: tcpdump and CONFIG_PACKET modular

[Niall O Broin]

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