Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Off the Wire?

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From: Justin Walker <justin@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:15:08 -0800
On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 19:18 US/Pacific, Robert Brugman wrote:


On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 21:57 America/Detroit, Justin Walker wrote:


On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 18:43 US/Pacific, Robert Brugman wrote:
[snip]
On systems with 'ifconfig', you should be able to do something like
  # ifconfig en0 up
or something like that (the actual device name will depend on your system). You will usually have to be root (or "privileged") to do this.
Thanks Jusin. I am using Mac OS X, which supports ifconfig. Basically I just need to be able to plug in to the switch and capture packets. Is there any special config I need to set in order to capture packets without having an IP?, or do I just have to have eth0 "up".

Just use 'ifconfig' as above (the device names can be discovered with 'ifconfig -a'). "eth0" is generally not one of the Mac OS X network device names :-}.

Regards,

Justin

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