[Iftop-users] working in 10baseT/UTP

[Martins Dzelde]

Hmm, well, i was using iftop all the time on the bridge, and one of the  
interfaces do have an ip address. Iftop was working fine on the bridge  
until i switched to the media type for the interface to 10baseT/UTP..

Martins.

On Mon, 02 May 2005 12:40:53 +0300, Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:55:18AM +0300, Martins Dzelde wrote:
>> The FreeBSD box is configured to work as bridge,
>
> That'll be it.  When iftop starts up, does it say "Cannot obtain MAC
> address on this platform"?  (you should be able to see this message
> after you quit).
>
> If so, then the problem is that it can't get the hardware address, and
> because it's a bridge, the interfaces don't have an IP address, so it
> can't determine which way the packets are actually moving.
>
> Either we need to figure out how to get the hardware address on FreeBSD,
> or add an option to specify the hardware address.
>
> Paul
>
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