I built the latest Ethereal the quick-and-easy way using Mac Ports on my
core 2 duo Leopard mac. It starts fine in X11 but crashes continually when
starting to monitor en1 (the built-in WiFi) as user root. I don't recall the
crash report at the moment but am wondering if this is a well-known bug
already.
Also, when running as a regular user, Wireshark does not have sufficient
privileges to monitor this device - yet if I run it as root, it gives me a
warning that this might be dangerous (and indeed, I suspect it might in some
cases). Is there another suggested way to run Wireshark on OS X, perhaps
only as an admin-but-not-root user? I am confused.

I also have some FreeBSD and NetBSD virtual machines that I could install
wireshark on. Anyone know if VMWare or Parallels would allow me to run in
promiscuous or similar wireless modes so wireshark could do its magic?

kelly
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