From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 05:29:21 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 9131537B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.xciv.org (vantage.xciv.org [217.158.13.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FB943FFD for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:28:35 -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 19c2RR-000K9Z-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:28:29 +0100 Received: from tuscan.xciv.org ([172.27.5.20]) by gw.home.xciv.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19c2Mc-0000HW-00; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:23:30 +0100 Received: (from paul@localhost) by tuscan.xciv.org (8.11.6/8.11.6/XCIVnbsdncV1) id h6ECRYE00605; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:27:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:27:34 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200307141227.h6ECRYE00605@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> <20030713180605.Y98302@grond.sourballs.org> <200307132345.h6DNjjl00941@tuscan.xciv.org> <20030713212630.L98478@grond.sourballs.org> In-Reply-To: <20030713212630.L98478@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: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:29:21 -0000 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-