How about trying each of eth0, all, any until hopefully one succeeds.

Roger


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Alan Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/14/2013 03:52 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
> >
> > On 03/14/2013 12:25 PM, Roger Massey wrote:
> >> I wanted to update progress on this.
> >>
> >> pcap_create("any", errb);
> >> pcap_create("all", errb);
> >>
> >> both succeed. If "all" works for linux then we would seem to be done.
> > "all" doesn't work on my version of Linux.  "any" seems to (at least
> > with tcpdump).
> But not with my code... Here's the message:
>
> ** (process:30757): WARNING **: pcap_compile of [(ether proto 0x88cc and
> ether dst 01:80:c2:00:00:0e) or (ether proto 0x2000 and ether dst
> 01:00:0c:cc:cc:cc)] failed: [ethernet addresses supported only on
> ethernet/FDDI/token ring/802.11/ATM LANE/Fibre Channel]
>
> I think I may have seen that message before... Sigh...
>
> I might be able to express it in terms of offsets into the packets and
> make that go away, but that's more complicated - so for the moment, I'm
> going to revert my change :-(.
>
>
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