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Note that newer versions of various distributions won't have these problems. 

Change-Id: Ib5f0d9ffe4a2a574c5cc2299271d3c5f9828dede
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/22914
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ in "/var/adm/messages", or may get messages such as
from applications using libpcap. from applications using libpcap.
You must configure the kernel with the CONFIG_PACKET option for this Most recent Linux distributions will have this configured in by default.
protocol; the following note is from the Linux "Configure.help" file for If it is not configured in with the default kernel, and if it is not a
the 2.0[.x] kernel: module loaded by default, you must configure the kernel with the
CONFIG_PACKET option for this protocol; the following note is from the
Linux "Configure.help" file for the 2.0[.x] kernel:
Packet socket Packet socket
CONFIG_PACKET CONFIG_PACKET
@ -57,8 +59,10 @@ significant number of packets. (If no filter is specified, it makes no
difference whether the filtering isn't performed in the kernel or isn't difference whether the filtering isn't performed in the kernel or isn't
performed in user mode. :-)) performed in user mode. :-))
The option for this is the CONFIG_FILTER option; the "Configure.help" Most recent Linux distributions will have this configured in by default.
file says: If it is not configured in with the default kernel, you must configure
the kernel with the CONFIG_FILTER option; the "Configure.help" file
says:
Socket filtering Socket filtering
CONFIG_FILTER CONFIG_FILTER