Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:27:34 +0100 (BST) From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: paul@xciv.org Subject: Re: Running ethereal on FBSD Message-ID: <200307141227.h6ECRYE00605@tuscan.xciv.org> In-Reply-To: <20030713212630.L98478@grond.sourballs.org> References: <13297.1057943729@xciv.org> <20030712160130.GA43097@praxis.lunabase.org> <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org> <200307132345.h6DNjjl00941@tuscan.xciv.org> <20030713212630.L98478@grond.sourballs.org>
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In article <20030713212630.L98478@grond.sourballs.org>, david.fleck@mchsi.com (David Fleck) writes: >> You will need to do this as root, what does -D actually do? > > tethereal man page: > -D Print a list of the interfaces on which Tethereal can > capture, and exit. Note that "can capture" means that > Tethereal was able to open that device to do a live So it probably just cycles through interfaces and sees if it can attach, I was just curious about what it was trying to do. >> You need bpf device to capture packets from ethernet interfaces, > ahh, that's it. Time to recompile. Will this require creating the > /dev/bpf device file as well? It looks like you get four by default, if you need any more listening processes than that, then you'll need to create more, otherwise you should be okay. -Paul-
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