Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2424] Interfaces list is empty under Mac OS X 10.4.11
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2424
--- Comment #1 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-04-08 03:57:18 GMT ---
Most UN*Xes have their annoying dances you have to go through to be allowed to
capture packets; not only is OS X no exception, its dance is very similar to
the dance needed for {Free,Net,Open,DragonFly}BSD.
There was a "Read me first" file, but, at least when I downloaded the package,
it was empty. The correct contents are:
Quick Setup
1. Drag the Wireshark icon to /Applications.
2. Drag the contents of the Utilities/Command Line folder to
$HOME/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/wireshark/bin or any other location that makes
sense (preferably one that's in your PATH).
3. You will probably need to adjust the permissions of /dev/bpf*
in order to capture. You can do this by hand or by installing the ChmodBPF
startup item.
Details
This disk contains the following:
• The Wireshark application, which can be placed anywhere on your
system. It requires X11.
• The Utilities/Command Line folder, which contains links to
Wireshark's command line utilities. These can be placed anywhere on your
system, but they must all be in the same directory. If you placed Wireshark in
a folder other than /Applications, you'll have to set WIRESHARK_APP_DIR in
order for these to work.
• The Utilties/Startup folder, which contains the ChmodBPF
startup item from the libpcap distribution. This can be used to set the
permissions of /dev/bpf* when your system starts up. See
Utilties/Startup/README.macosx for more details.
• This file.
The ChmodBPF item performs the aforementioned dance, at least if you have an
administrator account; try installing it and either rebooting or doing "sudo
chgrp admin /dev/bpf*; sudo chmod g+rw /dev/bpf*".
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