Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:31:31 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running ethereal on FBSD Message-ID: <20030713212630.L98478@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <200307132345.h6DNjjl00941@tuscan.xciv.org> References: <13297.1057943729@xciv.org> <20030712160130.GA43097@praxis.lunabase.org> <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org> <200307132345.h6DNjjl00941@tuscan.xciv.org>
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Paul Civati wrote:
> You will need to do this as root, what does -D actually do?
ethereal man page:
Network interface names should match one of the names
listed in "tethereal -D".
tethereal man page:
-D Print a list of the interfaces on which Tethereal can
capture, and exit. Note that "can capture" means that
Tethereal was able to open that device to do a live
capture; if, on your system, a program doing a network
capture must be run from an account with special
privileges (for example, as root), then, if Tethereal
is run with the -D flag and is not run from such an
account, it will not list any interfaces.
> You need bpf device to capture packets from ethernet interfaces,
> do you have bpf in your kernel?
ahh, that's it. Time to recompile. Will this require creating the
/dev/bpf device file as well?
--
David Fleck
dcf@aracnet.com
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