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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:56:06 -0700 (PDT)
> 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.

Most versions of libpcap - the library that Ethereal and tcpdump and so
on use to capture packets - don't work very nicely in that regard on
HP-UX.

Where did you get the libpcap used with Ethereal?