Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can't capture packets

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From: Jim Hendrick <jrhendri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:22:08 -0500
Are you running ethereal as root?

Do you have libpcap installed?

Can you see packets with tcpdump or snort (or something else that uses
libpcap?)



On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:54, Don Foy wrote:
> New to Ethereal, so please be gentle.
> 
> Running Ethereal in X11 on Mac OS X 10.3.3. When I go to capture and tell it
> to start, no interfaces are shown in the interface window. I can manually
> enter the interface (en0), but it then returns this error:
> 
> The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0:
> Permission denied). Please check to make sure you have sufficient
> permissions, and that you have the proper interface or pipe specified.
> 
> Any would be appreciated.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
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