> tcpdump needs live packet capture, and whatever that is, we don't have it.
Yes, Marcus, I realized it from the error message. But my question is: - > tcpdump: live packet capture not supported on this system what does this term "live packet capture" mean? (any reference / pointer to a web site would be nice) - why we (Hurd) doesn't have it and other OS have? - or ... what makes Hurd different? Is it because we use translator? - can't we get the data (packet) from the translator? (eg. something like `tee'-ing from the translator) PS: this email was composed and sent from a GNU/Hurd machine. MTA is using a simple perl-script which talks to a SMTP server :-) I am still trying to configure sendmail to do this (It masq. the address with an old hostname that I set during an initial hurd configuration. I don't know where there information is stored in the filesystem. Modifying sendmail.cf doesn't work. Will work on this.) -- budi
