On Jan 23, 2008 9:52 PM, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Kelly Martin wrote: > > > I built the latest Ethereal > > The latest Ethereal is called "Wireshark". :-) >
Oops too much ale last night, I was getting nostalgic. :) > > > 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. > > There is a well-known bug in which Wireshark crashes when you run it > on Leopard: > > http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1953 > > You can pick up an updated version of the X server that will clear up > the problem; the bug indicates where to get it. > I installed the latest X11.app and that fixed the problem, Wireshark runs like a charm now. Thanks! The latest X server also seems to fix a couple of bugs I noticed, though it still doesn't work well with Spaces yet. Not a big deal. > > VMWare Fusion will give your virtual machine a virtual Ethernet > interface, not a virtual wireless interface; it can go into > promiscuous mode, but I don't think that'll put the host's interface > into promiscuous mode. I think you should be able to plug a USB > wireless adapter into your machine and tell Fusion to grab it and give > it to the virtual machine, in which case its driver should be able to > put it into promiscuous or monitor mode. (I haven't tried that yet.) > I'm going to give that a shot soon, I've got an old Linksys USB 802.11badapter that can work in promiscuous and monitor modes. If I can get it running with FreeBSD and VMWare Fusion I'll post here with an update. Parallels is a little weaker on the USB side of things... for example my Garmin GPS crashes the VM in Parallels, but not VMWare... Anyway, I am very happy things are up and running now! kelly
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