On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM, shirish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > sorry for jumping on the thread. I am on kernel 2.6.27 and there is > a big possibility I haven't really understood your command. > > You gave > > tcpdump -s0 -w <output>.cap host <youripaddress> > > I used :- > > tcpdump -s0 -w output.cap host 59.95.28.28 > > (ouput.cap most probably is a file-name and the IP Address is the IP > Address being assigned by my provider) > > but both for this I get > > tcpdump: no suitable device found
Did you try it as root? I tried the same comand as root and non-root. Got the same error as you have got, when run as non-root. Worked when done as root. -- "I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs...It... -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
