Wireshark

Wireshark, a really cool network analyzer I’m planning to write more about later. What happened was that at startup you get a long list of error messages, and then no network interfaces could be found.

Luckily, Michael Gracie has scavenged the net for a solution, and found it.

Basically, all you need to do is follow the normal instructions, Dragging the app to the Application folder, the ChmodBPF folder in utilities to the StartupItems alias and the contents of the commandLine folder to /usr/local/bin.

Open a terminal and type:

cd /Library/StartupItems
sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF

enter your password and hit enter.

Now start up Wireshark, close the list of error messages, hit edit -> preferences -> name resolution, click the edit button next to “SMI (MIB and PIB paths)”, click “new” and type /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ in the text field.  Now click apply / OK, all your way out, exit, and reboot your computer.

After the reboot, everything should be working like a charm.

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