From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 16:46:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADA337B401 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.xciv.org (vantage.xciv.org [217.158.13.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D473143F75 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@xciv.org) Received: from 82-43-155-50.cable.ubr03.newm.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.43.155.50] helo=gw.home.xciv.org) by mailhost.xciv.org with esmtp id 19bqYB-000H4a-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:46:39 +0100 Received: from tuscan.xciv.org ([172.27.5.20]) by gw.home.xciv.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19bqTN-0001NK-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:41:41 +0100 Received: (from paul@localhost) by tuscan.xciv.org (8.11.6/8.11.6/XCIVnbsdncV1) id h6DNjjl00941; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:45:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:45:46 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200307132345.h6DNjjl00941@tuscan.xciv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Organization: iso.org.dod.internet References: <13297.1057943729@xciv.org> <20030712160130.GA43097@praxis.lunabase.org> <20030712210520.Q74361@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org> From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) X-Original-Newsgroups: xciv.lists.freebsd.stable To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: paul@xciv.org Subject: Re: Running ethereal on FBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:46:47 -0000 In article <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org>, david.fleck@mchsi.com (David Fleck) writes: > When I try to find out what interfaces it can capture data from, I get > this: > > dcf>$ tethereal -D > tethereal: There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done > > I've tried as root, same response. You will need to do this as root, what does -D actually do? > Now, the network's up and running when I do this- as far as I know, the > interfaces are configured and running properly. There's obviously some > basic thing I'm missing here, but I've gone through the man page and the > Users' Guide and am still at a loss. > Why can't I do a capture from my ethernet card (using dc0 as the > interface)? What can I do about it? You need bpf device to capture packets from ethernet interfaces, do you have bpf in your kernel? Try with tcpdump, if that works then ethereal should do (I'm guessing it uses libpcap/bpf). -Paul-