On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:13:30PM -0300, Luís Vitório Cargnini wrote:
> i'm trying use the ethereal but i have received the following message in
> a message box:
> " The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found)
> /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory).
"/dev/bpf0" means you're probably using some flavor of BSD (FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS). If you're not using some flavor of BSD, then
either
1) you're trying to run an Ethereal binary that was built for
some flavor of BSD on an OS other than the one for which it
was built - complain to whoever installed or provided that
version of Ethereal;
2) the "libpcap" library (which is the library that Ethereal
uses to do captures) was built for BSD, but you're running
it on some other OS - complain to whoever installed or
provided that version of libpcap;
3) the machine on which you're running this is running some
flavor of BSD, but the kernel on your system isn't configured to
support BPF - if you built the kernel on your machine, rebuild
it with BPF support, otherwise ask whoever built and
installed the kernel on the machine to add BPF support.
