Or 4) you rebuilt the kernel with BPF support but you didn't:
cd /dev; /dev/MAKEDEV bpf0
cheers
--dr
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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.
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