Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Interface not displayed in Capture->Start combobox

[steve glass <stiabhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Guy Harris wrote:

| OK, so libpcap has "pcap_findalldevs()", so that's probably what's 
being used to find the network interfaces.  Just out of curiosity , what 
does "tcpdump -D" (tcpdump, not tethereal) print?

There are several libcaps on this machine. In /usr/include + /usr/lib 
its ridiculously out of date. Removed them anyway but the problem is 
simply...

| OK, no IP address, so it won't show up in SIOCGIFCONF (the primary 
mechanism used by libpcap on Linux if "getifaddrs()" isn't present).

Bingo! We have a winner. I was configuring the interface +promisc 
without bothering to set an IP address (reasoning it didn't need one) 
but now have it working properly.

Many thanks,

Steve

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