Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] No Interface question ?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:00:06 -0700
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:25:20PM -0600, Vicki Thompson wrote:
> The capture session could not be initiated ( recv_ack: bind error 0x1)
> Please check to make sure you have sufficent permissions, and that you have
> the proper interface or pipe specified.

That's an error message from a pre-0.7.1 version of libpcap.  It's not
from any version that comes with AIX, either, as the ones that come with
AIX use BPF, not DLPI, and that's a DLPI error; this means you
presumably compiled and installed libpcap yourself.  (I don't know
whether AIX 4.x even comes with its own libpcap in a form that can be
used by applications other than the tcpdump that comes with AIX; I have
the impression it doesn't, and that it first showed up in AIX 5.x.)

Try:

	un-installing whatever version of libpcap you built and
	installed;

	downloading the latest version of libpcap (0.7.1) from
	tcpdump.org;

	building and installing *that* version;

	recompiling Ethereal to use that version.