No Interfaces Available Using Wireshark on Mac OSX | Comments (1)
Posted in Code, Linux/Unix on 2nd June 2008, 8:10 am by Stuart
On my previous Macbook Pro I’d used Ethereal and I don’t remember having many issues with it as I was able to run it as sudo so that I had privileges for sniffing packets. Since then Ethereal has become Wireshark and it’s now available with a nice appication wrapper as a launcher for running it under X11
After opening wireshark for the first time I had an issue that there were no interfaces to choose from due to lack of permissions. This link provides a neat solution to the problem by providing a start-up item to set the relevant permissions correctly.
The nub of the solution is to make sure you have permission to read /dev/bpf*
See here:
http://www.finkconsulting.com/page7.php