Re: Monitoring eth0 with wmnet

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 24 Aug, John@oa.nl wrote about "Monitoring eth0 with wmnet"
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying (unsuccessfuly) to monitor the ethernet traffic from
> my laptop using wmnet.
> 
> It looks like it is only set up to handle ppp traffic.  I dont
> have a modem handy, so cant test it on ppp (can I?).
> 
> 
[snip]
> 
> # wmnet -x 10000000 -l --device eth0
> wmnet: using pppstats driver to monitor eth0
> 
> # wmnet -x 10000000 -l -D devstats  
> wmnet: driver devstats not appropriate for this machine
> 

I use 'wmnet --device eth0' without problems.  But I think from reading
the man page that you need a 2.1.x or above kernel for the devstats
driver which is used for eth0.  Are you using a 2.0.x kernel?  That may
be the problem.

This is what I get at startup:

# wmnet --device eth0
wmnet: using devstats driver to monitor eth0


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Brian 
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