Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] socket type not supported

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:31:22 -0800
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:11:37PM +0100, martin wrote:
> I do:  ethereal -i eth0 -k
> 
> My config: Slackware 7.0, kernel 2.2.13, ethereal 0.8.15

I suspect the actual message was

	socket: Socket type not supported

which means that your kernel probably doesn't have packet socket support
configured in, and will be as incapable of running, say, tcpdump as it
is incapable of running Ethereal, or etherape, or most if not all other
programs that attempt to capture packets from a network. 

If you have the Ethereal source, see the "README.linux" file that came
with the source distribution; if you don't, see

	http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ethereal/README.linux?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

which will show you the 1.7 version of "README.linux" in the Ethereal
CVS tree.

You'll probably also want to configure socket filtering in
(CONFIG_FILTER) as well.