Wireshark Capture support
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Sep 15 06:04:12 PDT 2010
On Sep 15, 2010, at 04:17, Jasper Frumau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Jeff Singleton wrote:
>> Actually ... that will work! Its the ChmodBPF steps to change the permissions so that the 'admin' group can access the devices.
>
> I looked for bpf as indicated at http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges for BSD/OSX
>
> jaspersmbp:dev jasper$ ls -l | grep bpf
> crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 0 Sep 15 11:13 bpf0
> crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 1 Sep 15 11:01 bpf1
> crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 2 Sep 15 11:01 bpf2
> crw------- 1 root wheel 23, 3 Sep 15 11:01 bpf3
>
> Is this the correct folder? wil chmod 666 do?
Yes, and that might work. Or you could do what the ChmodBPF script does:
chgrp admin /dev/bpf*
chmod g+rw /dev/bpf*
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