Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems on OS x 10.3.8

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:17:50 +0000
On Sunday 27 Feb 2005 6:50 am, Wim Cumps wrote:
> Hey
>
>
> I have some problems with OSX, when I want to capture data I get his
> error on eatch ethernet interface.
> Do you have some advice for me ?

http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.7

Which is not particularly direct.
MacOS is a BSD variant, and as such you need write access to /dev/bpf*. 
Either run ethereal as super-user or give yourself write access to 
those device files. A Mac user (Guy?) might pop up to say how that's 
done, but the hints would be "chmod" and "chown".

-- 
Richard Urwin