'''Originally Posted By: Jay_Reynolds_Freeman'''
Has anyone gotten WireShark to do anything useful on a Mac?<br><br>I have been trying to follow the directions from the &quot;How to Capture&quot; bullet on the WireShark main screen, and the stuff that it takes to get &quot;Capture Privileges&quot; (second item under &quot;General Setup&quot; on the &quot;How to Capture&quot; page) looks a little scary; it seems to involve messing with some low-level stuff in my system that is both incompletely documented and also a bit buggy. I am hoping there is a better way, but at the moment when I mouse the &quot;Interface List&quot; icon on WireShark I get a message saying that there are no interfaces on which a capture can be done.<br><br>A possibly useful page is http://josephhall.org/nqb2/index.php/20 ... shrkinstll
'''Originally Posted By: schroeder'''
Try this from an account with admin permissions:<br> sudo chgrp admin /dev/bpf*<br> sudo chmod g+r /dev/bpf*<br><br>Now any admin account will be able to capture packets.<br><br>You could also just use this:<br>$ sudo chmod o+r /dev/bpf*<br><br>And this will make any user capable of capturing packets from any interface. Nevermind the security implications.<br><br>Note, at reboot permissions (should) reset themselves to root:wheel 600.