Re: tcpdump : unsupported socket type

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:37:20 +0100 (BST)

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> So, it seems that the tcpdump package from RH 6.0 needs to be updated to
> be able to insmod af_packet when needed.

Linux supports automatical loading of kernel modules whenever application
attempts to use the corresponding resources. More specifically, placing in
/etc/modules.conf the line:

alias net-pf-17 af_packet

and rerunning "depmod -a" will ensure that af_packet.o is loaded when
tcpdump(8) attempts to open a socket of the corresponding family.

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