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From Shaun Clowes: update the to reflect the fact that it should now 

create the BPF devices.

Further update to indicate that the configure script doesn't, on AIX,
require the devices to be there.
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@ -6,19 +6,10 @@ Using BPF:
machine. machine.
Note that the BPF driver and the "/dev/bpf" devices might not exist Note that the BPF driver and the "/dev/bpf" devices might not exist
on your machine; AIX's tcpdump appears to load the driver and create on your machine; AIX's tcpdump loads the driver and creates the
the devices if they don't already exist. Our libpcap doesn't create devices if they don't already exist. Our libpcap should do the
them, so you should run (as the super-user) AIX's tcpdump once (you same, and the configure script should detect that it's on an AIX
can interrupt it as soon as it starts capturing packets) to create system and choose BPF even if the devices aren't there.
the devices. Do this before running the configure script, so that
the configure script finds the BPF devices and chooses to configure
libpcap to use BPF.
It may be that you will need to do this after every reboot; we don't
know whether that's the case, and, if it is the case, don't know
whether there's a way to force the driver to be loaded on a reboot.
(We also don't know how to make libpcap create the devices and, if
necessary, load the driver.)
(2) If libpcap doesn't compile on your machine when configured to use (2) If libpcap doesn't compile on your machine when configured to use
BPF, or if the workarounds fail to make it work correctly, you BPF, or if the workarounds fail to make it work correctly, you