Wireshark Capture support

Jasper Frumau jasperfrumau at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 08:23:40 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> 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*
>

That works. Just had to do it again on reboot .. No going through some
packages. Thanks for all the help!
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