[Tfug] simh on Linux -- where's bpf?

[Nick Lopez]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:16:13PM -0800, Gordon Zaft wrote:
> Gang,
>  I'm trying to get simh to run on Linux (FC4).  I got
> the source and compiled it (had to
> download/compile/instal updated libpcap), but can't
> bring up networking because I have no /dev/bpf0 or
> /dev/bpf1.  What's the deal?  I can run just fine on
> NetBSD and OpenBSD!
  The Berkeley Packet Filter devices are a Berkeley Software Distribution
kind of thing, Linux doesn't use them, but libpcap should know that unless
you tried to force it to use bpf.

  - Nick Lopez
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