[Don Foy <donf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running ethereal in X-11, Apple's X-windows environment. I don't know
how to run it as root.


Libpcap is installed

Tcpdump works





on 3/17/04 11:22 AM, Jim Hendrick at jrhendri@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.

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Don Foy                         Herald-Citizen
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