Wireshark Interfaces

[Guy Sibley]

I can't get Wireshark to recognize any network interfaces on my Eee pc. Does anyone have any ideas?

[uRock]

You have to set up a user group in order to monitor the interfaces.
To set up permissions and safely run wireshark follow these instructions,

Once Wireshark is installed, the correct way to run it without invoking root privileges (which is extremely dangerous) can be done like this from the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libcap2-bin wireshark
sudo chgrp admin /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap

Run each command separately and then run Wireshark.

Courtesy of forum member cdenley.

Hope this helps.

[mr-woof]

have you tried running wireshark as root, that usually works for me

sudo wireshark

[Rubi1200]

have you tried running wireshark as root, that usually works for me

sudo wireshark

Please, please do NOT run Wireshark as root as you could potentially expose/compromise your whole system!!!

WIRESHARK CONTAINS OVER ONE POINT FIVE MILLION LINES OF SOURCE CODE. DO NOT RUN THEM AS ROOT.

Source:
http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/mar/...non-root-user/

[mr-woof]

ah oops, thanks for telling me. I think I've only used it once or twice like that, whoopsie

[Rubi1200]

ah oops, thanks for telling me. I think I've only used it once or twice like that, whoopsie

Please use the commands linked above in the post by uRock; then you can run Wireshark and capture interfaces but not as root.