Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can't get list of interfaces: getifaddrs: Connection refuse

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:51:58 -0700
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:15:40PM +0200, David wrote:
> We´re having a problem with Tethereal 0.10.4 running over a Debian Woody
> OS.
> When we try to execute the program we obtain the next error message:
> 
> tethereal: Can't get list of interfaces: getifaddrs: Connection refused

That means that the "getifaddrs()" routine on your Debian system is, for
whatever reason, unable to fetch the list of interfaces and their
addresses.

I suggest you ask the Debian folks why that might be.  Perhaps there's a
bug in "getifaddrs()", or perhaps it does something really annoying such
as requiring you to be root to use it.