Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] ethereal 0.8.11 on HP-UX 11.00

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From: "Jaeckel, Michael" <Michael.Jaeckel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:20:30 +0200
Hello,

we are trying to use ethereal on HP-UX 11.00, but we always get the
following error:
The capture session could not be initiated (can't find PPA for /dev/lan0).
Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that you have
the proper interface or pipe specified.


Maybe the following information could help you to locate the error:

# uname -a
HP-UX W8T00604 B.11.00 A 9000/777 2012393840 Lizenz f|r zwei Benutzer

# ethereal -v
ethereal 0.8.11, with GTK+ 1.2.8, with libpcap 0.4, with libz 1.1.3, without
SNMP

# netstat -i
Name           Mtu Network            Address                 Ipkts
Opkts
lan0          1500 164.28.60.128      W8T00604.sbr03.telekom.de 
                                                             474255
704111
lo0           4136 127.0.0.0          localhost               38348
38348

# lanadmin <lan> <display>
PPA Number                      = 0
Description                     = lan0 Hewlett-Packard LAN Interface Hw Rev
0
Type (value)                    = ethernet-csmacd(6)
MTU Size                        = 1500
Speed                           = 10000000
Station Address                 = 0x60b007d1db
Administration Status (value)   = up(1)
Operation Status (value)        = up(1)
Last Change                     = 100
Inbound Octets                  = 31749671
Inbound Unicast Packets         = 156935
Inbound Non-Unicast Packets     = 29796
Inbound Discards                = 0
Inbound Errors                  = 0
Inbound Unknown Protocols       = 91
Outbound Octets                 = 486242049
Outbound Unicast Packets        = 402118
Outbound Non-Unicast Packets    = 170
Outbound Discards               = 0
Outbound Errors                 = 0
Outbound Queue Length           = 0
Specific                        = 655367

# ls -ld /dev /dev/lan*
dr-xr-xr-x  16 bin        bin           5120 28. Aug., 01:05 /dev
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys              9  8. Feb. 2000 /dev/lan ->
/dev/dlpi
crw-------   1 root       root       236 0x000000 28. Aug., 01:04 /dev/lan0

Command to invoke Ethereal:
# ethereal -i lan0
<capture> <start>

Message from Ehtereal:
The capture session could not be initiated (can't find PPA for /dev/lan0).
Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that you have
the proper interface or pipe specified.


Best Regards,
Michael J�ckel