Re: [Ethereal-users] Off the Wire?

[Justin Walker <justin@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 19:18 US/Pacific, Robert Brugman wrote:

> On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 21:57 America/Detroit, Justin Walker wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 18:43 US/Pacific, Robert Brugman wrote:
[snip]
> > On systems with 'ifconfig', you should be able to do something like
> >   # ifconfig en0 up
> > or something like that (the actual device name will depend on your 
> > system).  You will usually have to be root (or "privileged") to do 
> > this.
> Thanks Jusin.  I am using Mac OS X, which supports ifconfig.  
> Basically  I just need to be able to plug in to the switch and capture 
> packets.   Is there any special config I need to set in order to 
> capture packets without having an IP?, or do I just have to have eth0 
> "up".

Just use 'ifconfig' as above (the device names can be discovered with 
'ifconfig -a').  "eth0" is generally not one of the Mac OS X network 
device names :-}.

Regards,

Justin

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