Actually ... that will work! Its the ChmodBPF steps to change the permissions so that the 'admin' group can access the devices.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-09-14 12:40 , Jasper Frumau wrote: > > Installed Wireshark a while. Decided to use it for some network analysis > > today, using it for the first time ever. Got an error "There are no > > interfaces on which a capture can be done". I believ I need teh capture > > support driver like wincap for Windows. Which one can I install using > > MacPorts? I searched for packet socket, but nothing. Then I read > > "BSD (including Mac OS X) > > On various BSDs, you need to have BPF support enabled in your kernel. In > > Mac OS X, and in newer versions of at least some free-software BSDs, > > it's enabled by default. In other BSDs, see the documentation for your > > system for information on how to enable BPF support. " > > You need to run wireshark with extended privileges in order to be able > to read "raw" from the capture interface. /dev/bpf* is only accessible > for root by default. Run 'sudo wireshark'. > > I don't know if modifying the permissions on those files would help as > described on the wireshark wiki here: > <http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges> (BSD section) > > HTH, > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > Your HTML signature here
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