Running ethereal on FBSD

[Paul Civati]

In article <20030713212630.L98478 at grond.sourballs.org>,
	david.fleck at 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-