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

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From: Marco van den Bovenkamp <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:53:30 +0100
Don Foy wrote:


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.
Looks like it's telling you what the problem is: you don't have the permissions to open /dev/bpf0. 

Are you running Ethereal as a non-root user?

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		Regards,

			Marco.