Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture-start option returns recv_ack error on AIX V5

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:10:47PM -0500, Shantala G wrote:
> > The capture session could not be initiated (recv_ack: bind error 0x1).Please 
> > check to make sure you have sufficient permissions and that you have the 
> > proper interface or pipe specified.
> 
> If I recall, the libpcap that comes with AIX is broken.

Does the libpcap that comes with AIX use BPF, or DLPI?

If it uses BPF, he wouldn't see that message with it - that's a
"pcap-dlpi.c" message, not a "pcap-bpf.c" message.