how to run ethereal

mkwan

mkwan

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I just installed ethereal using fink and wondering how to run the program. more specifically, what should I type in the interface box if I want to use the ethernet interface.

thanks
 
en0 generally, but that means that you are using apple's builtin ethernet port.
to get an idea of the different interfaces that are up on your machine open terminal and do ifconfig, you should be able to figure out which one to monitor.
 
en0 is the onboard NIC
en1 is the wireless NIC
lo0 is the loopback device
gif0 is a tunnel device
stf0 is a IPv6 to IPv4 tunnel device
fw0 is the firewall device
ppp0 would be a ppp device


You want to monitor the active NIC, if you are hard wired, then
en0, wireless then en1.
 
Why is everyone trying ethereal where netwox is so much better ;)

If you need just a short look at something build in tcpdump should be enough. And if you really want a detailed information over the pakets and about 100 other usefull tools included take netwox. And best it that it could be compiled directly for OS X. Noo need for X11.

You need netwib to get netwox working. Netwag is not needed.

http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/
 
I get this message when I try to capture packets:

"The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied). Please check to make sure you have sufficient permissions, and that you have the proper interface or pipe specified"

How do I fix it?
 
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