Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Using eteareal on host machine configured as a bridge

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:18:38 -0700 (PDT)
> tcpdump will capture packets with or without the IP assigned.
> ethereal will only display the br0 interface for selection if an
> IP is assigned to br0.

What version of Ethereal are you running?  Versions prior to 0.8.14
required that the interface have an IP address in order to support
capturing at all; 0.8.14 and later don't.

If you're running 0.8.14 or later, what happens if you try to capture on
"br0" anyway?