Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] permission problem with capturing

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:19:41 -0800 (PST)
> You may need to reference the card's DLPI device directly.  We were having
> trouble getting Ethereal to capture on an HP-UX 10.20 machine here.  I
> found an article on Deja News that says:
> 
> "To access a particular interface, you would say "tcpdump -i /dev/dlpiN"
> where N is the PPA of the interface you wish to use. You get the PPA by
> looking at the output of lanscan. On 10.20, it is the same value as the
> NMID. On 11.X, it is the Card Instance number."
> 
> This didn't help in our case, but it might in yours.  The full article is
> at http://x34.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=549366486 .
> 
> Another article by the same author mentions that experimental versions of
> libpcap and tcpdump are available at
> ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/tools/ .  The article itself is at
> http://x34.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=558665378 .

Should this go into the "README.hpux" file?