On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Tobias Weber wrote:
libpcap comes with Mac OS, but to use it from GUI applications
without changing permissions in /dev is complicated.
Nothing unique about Mac OS X here - the situation on *BSD is the same
(not surprisingly, as *BSD and Mac OS X both use BPF),
Hi,
libpcap comes with Mac OS, but to use it from GUI applications without
changing permissions in /dev is complicated.
The OS includes a helper tool which can ask the user for credentials
and return a file descriptor opened with root rights.
It'd be nice if libpcap could be initialized wi