Re: libpcap 0.9.4 on HP-UX: "Device busy"

["Harley Stenzel" <hstenzel () gmail com>]

On 6/8/06, Justin E <supramacy () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to get libpcap 0.9.4 to work on several HP-UX boxes,
> and am unfortunately having some trouble when I try to open an
> interface using pcap_open_live. The error I receive is:
>
> recv_ack: promisc_phys: UNIX error - Device busy

It sounds like some other process has the device open.  On HP-UX,
unlike Linux and (iirc) Solaris, only one process may have an
interface open at a time.

I double checked this on my ia64 HP-UX 11.23 box, and this is the
behavior I observed.

Is it possible another libpcap / streams / dlpi process is running?

> Thanks,
> Justin

 --Harley
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