Running ethereal on FBSD

[David Fleck]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Paul Civati wrote:
> You will need to do this as root, what does -D actually do?

ethereal man page:
   Network interface names should match one of the names
   listed in "tethereal -D".

tethereal man page:
   -D  Print a list of the interfaces on which Tethereal can
       capture, and exit.  Note that "can capture" means that
       Tethereal was able to open that device to do a live
       capture; if, on your system, a program doing a network
       capture must be run from an account with special
       privileges (for example, as root), then, if Tethereal
       is run with the -D flag and is not run from such an
       account, it will not list any interfaces.

> You need bpf device to capture packets from ethernet interfaces,
> do you have bpf in your kernel?

ahh, that's it.  Time to recompile.  Will this require creating the
/dev/bpf device file as well?


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David Fleck
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