new user needs help

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Russell,
   I think that we are doing a pcap call to get the
address and failing.  Currently, any real error on an
interface causes us to close it, so I'll fix this
for argus-2.0.4.

Carter

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

carter at qosient.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Russell Fulton
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:50 PM
> To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: RE: new user needs help
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:37:46 -0400 Carter Bullard 
> <carter at qosient.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Hey Michael,
> > Add an unroutable address to your interface, and it will probably 
> > start working.  Argus wants to know the interface's 
> address.  I'm not 
> > sure what it will do if it doesn't get one, on some OS's.  
> I'll take a 
> > look at it.
> > 
> 
> On Linux, it won't start without an address on the interface. 
>  I would 
> prefer to be able to run it without an address.  I assume you 
> are using 
> the address for the server-id.
> 
> Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
> The University of Auckland,  New Zealand
> 
>