Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] [Ethereal-users] No interfaces showing on ethereal 0.99 on
Warren Hall wrote:
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...so I'm redirecting this to wireshark-users (to which replies will go).
I have compiled and installed ethereal 0.99 on my intel based Mac under
OS X. The GUI launches and everything seems in order but I have no list
of interfaces from which to capture from.
My hardware is a MacBook Pro with built-in Gigabit ethernet and 802.11g
adaptors.
I am pretty sure my build went OK. Just wondering if I missed something
in the ethereal configuration?
No, you missed something in your BSD configuration. :-)
On BSD-flavored systems, such as OS X, libpcap opens a BPF device to do
a capture. You'd need to make the BPF devices on your system readable
by you in order to capture (you could also run Wireshark as root, but
that's overkill, and runs a rather large chunk of code as root).
You could do
sudo chown {your account name} /dev/bpf*
to do that, but that would have to be done after every reboot. To do
that automatically, you could install the ChmodBPF startup item from
recent versions of libpcap on your system in /Library/StartupItems and
edit the commands in the StartService() shell function in
ChmodBPF/ChmodBPF to do the appropriate chown and possibly chmod commands.
I've attached a gzipped tarfile with that startup item.
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