[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Run in the application 'Terminal'

sudo chmod uog+r /dev/bpf?

You have to do this after each restart of the OS.

Best regards
Michael

On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:17 Uhr, Richard Urwin wrote:

> 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
>
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