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@@ -27,12 +27,15 @@ Ethereal is known to compile and run on the following systems: - Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6) - FreeBSD (2.2.5, 2.2.6) - Sequent PTX v4.4.5 (Nick Williams <njw@sequent.com>) + - Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX) (3.2, 4.0) It should run on other systems without too much trouble. Full installation instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. +See also the appropriate README.<OS> files for OS-specific installation +instructions. Usage ----- diff --git a/README.tru64 b/README.tru64 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ecb138bf82 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.tru64 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ + +The following instructions are applicable to Tru64 UNIX +(formerly Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1)) version 3.2 and 4.0. + + +In order to use kernel packet filtering on this system, you have +to configure it in such a way : + +Kernel configuration +-------------------- + +The packet filtering kernel option must be enabled at kernel +installation. If it was not the case, you can rebuild the kernel +after adding the following line in the kernel configuration file +(/sys/conf/<HOSTNAME>): + +option PACKETFILTER + +Device configuration +-------------------- + +Devices used for packet filtering must be created thanks to +the following command (executed in the /dev directory): + +./MAKEDEV pfilt + +Interface configuration +----------------------- + +In order to capture all packets on a network, you may want to +enable the promiscuous mode of the interface thanks to the +pfconfig(1) command: + +pfconfig <network_device> +c +p + + +Note: all instructions given require root privileges. |