Wireshark Capture support

[Jeff Singleton]

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 <raimue at macports.org> 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
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