Re: BIOCVERSION: inappropriate ioctl for device....

[Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov>]

Where are you getting your libpcap.a (or .so) from!

BIOCVERSION is defined in bpf.h which comes with tcpdump.org libpcap and
probably just about all libpcap's.  And, that message looks like it is
coming from a libpcap subroutine found in pcap-bpf.c or pcap-pf.c, neither
of which should be existent on a redhad machine libpcap library, unless linux
8.0 is a BSD system.  pcap-linux.c should have been compile into the libpcap
library.

  # grep BIOCVERSION *.c
  pcap-bpf.c:     if (ioctl(fd, BIOCVERSION, (caddr_t)&bv) < 0) {
  pcap-bpf.c:             snprintf(ebuf, PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE, "BIOCVERSION: %s",
  pcap-pf.c:              if (ioctl(p->fd, BIOCVERSION, (caddr_t)&bv) < 0) {
  pcap-pf.c:                          "BIOCVERSION: %s", pcap_strerror(errno));

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:40:25PM -0000, Arun Viswanathan wrote:
> Hey all!!
>
> I've just installed snort v 1.9.0 on my linux 8.0 system....and i 
> get this error msg while snort initializes...."BIOCVERSION: 
> inappropriate ioctl for device"....I was wondering if snort v 
> 1.9.0 is compatible with redhat linux 8.0!! If it is, then how do 
> i solve this problem??
>
> Thanx....Arun
>
>
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