bav@fiol.uib.no (Bjorn Asle Valde) (12/15/89)
At my site I distribute the MIT/CMU pc-ip compiled for the packet driver interface. For obvious reasons this is much better than having to compile N*ether-card-type = much work ... Now, there's a catch-22 here; you can not compile and get the netwatch to run as distributed. I had a feeling that this was because netwatch needs promiscous mode, but I'm not able to verify this by just browsing the source code (perhaps one day when I grow up..:-). Anyway, netwatch is much needed around the place (no, I can not ask them *all* to buy a Sniffer :-), so I sent a letter to the author of the packet driver distributed with PC-IP and asked. Here's the educated reply (Thanks a lot, Karl!): > From: karl@asylum.sf.ca.us (Karl Auerbach) > > The standard PC-IP netwatch uses a special interface to the device > driver -- a ring buffer with 60 byte slots. This is completely > different from the packet driver interface. Hence the fact that the > off-the-shell netwatch doesn't even try to link with the packet driver > interface. The more recent packet driver specifications can do > promiscuous mode reception and I believe there exists a netwatch which > uses this (but beware that not all packet drivers support the new > modes.) Unfortunately, I don't know who has done this work. You > might want to send a query onto the distribution list. > > Good Luck > --karl-- So, the question is: Has anyone got netwatch to work with the packet driver, and if yes is it available? Regards; Bjorn ; Bjorn Asle Valde bav@fiol.uib.no ; The Computing Centre, University of Bergen valde@rose.uib.uninett ; HiB, Thormohlensgate 55, edmbv@nobergen.bitnet ; N-5008 Bergen, Norway. Phones: +47-5-544214 ; #include <stdDisclaimer.h> (fax) +47-5-544299