Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: R: [Ethereal-dev] Remote online packet capture?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:11:30 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:06:09AM +0200, Fulvio Risso wrote:
> > Excellent.
> > We didn't know that on Solaris.
> > Just to say... our starting poit was already wrong...
> 
> Well, perhaps you can't capture on Solaris virtual interfaces, in which
> case ":" may be OK as a separator; I'll see if I can get the Solaris on
> my machine (the joys of a quad-boot machine) to have a virtual
> interface, and see if I can capture on it.

When I try to capture using a logical interface on Solaris 7, I get

tethereal: The capture session could not be initiated (le0:1 bad unit number).
Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that
you have the proper interface specified.

Capturing on a logical interface works under Linux, however.


BTW, is there a standard term for this type of interface?  Cisco uses the
term "subinterface".  The Solaris ifconfig(1M) man page calls them
"logical interfaces."  The Linux documentation refers to them as
"aliases."