Hi

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Olav,
   My understanding is that this is a kernel thing,
not an Argus requirement.  Assigning unroutable addresses,
such as 0.0.0.0 or 0.0.0.1 seems to work.  You should
be able to assign the same address to both interfaces.

   If this doesn't work, do send mail!!

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
New York, New York  10022

carter at qosient.com
Phone +1 212 588-9133
Fax   +1 212 588-9134
http://qosient.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Olav Langeland
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 6:05 AM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Hi
> 
> 
> Just downloaded and had a peek at Argus on our FreeBSD 4.3 
> box. The box has 1 NIC for normal network, and 2 NIC that 
> doesnt have an IP and just silently monitors ports on our switch. 
> Tried to start up Argus but it complained
> argus[87024]: ArgusInitSource: fxp1: no IPv4 address assigned
> 
> Does Argus require an IP address for the NIC it will use or 
> is it any way to make this work?
> 
> -- 
> Olav Langeland - olav.langeland at activeisp.com
>