Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Re: Problems running Ethereal 0.4.1

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From: Keith Morse <kgmorse@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 09:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
On 18 Oct 1998, Jurij Smakov wrote:

> The interface I'm specifying is eth0 (btw, it's the
> only interface available from Interface pull-down
> menu. As you can see, ethereal executable is
> suid-root. What am I doing wrong (isn't this
> pathetic ;) ?
> 


Sniffing requires   the interface your on to be in promiscous mode.  In my
experience to put an ethernet adapter in that mode you have to be running
as root.  I just tried as me and then as root.  Me: no work, root: work.