Security-related question

[Jim March]

Ah...OK, I think I'm getting somewhere.  BUT...

According to ifconfig the interface I'm trying to monitor is:

---
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:d1:c8:b4:bf
          inet addr:10.0.1.4  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:d1ff:fec8:b4bf/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:980 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:247 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:189416 (189.4 KB)  TX bytes:33908 (33.9 KB)
---

So I try:

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jim at jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pca 10.0.1.4
tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: syntax error
jim at jim-lappy:~$
---

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
> > jim at jim-lappy:~$ tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pcap host 127.0.0.1
> > tcpdump: no suitable device found
>
> That's the loopback interface, and will not have what you're looking for on
> it.  tcpdump under Linux must be run as root unless you have the
> "capability"
> stuff turned on and active in your kernel, and the user you're running
> tcpdump
> as has the CAP_NET_RAW privilege.  The error message I get is exactly the
> same
> when I try to run tcpdump as a non-root user.
>
> > So I ran Wireshark and it doesn't see an interface it can use.
>
> You're generally discouraged from running wireshark as a capture tool,
> since
> it'll only capture stuff when run as root, and wireshark is far more
> complex
> than tcpdump.
>
> > I think I have an Atheros mini-PCI-express I can bolt into this Dell
> > I'm using at the moment...will that help?
>
> I don't think it's hardware, but privileges that are causing the problem.
>  Try
> running tcpdump as root, using the real IP of the VM for the "host"
> parameter,
> and seeing what you get.
>
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