Comments on: Ethereal on Mac OS X

By: Masum

Masum — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:14:32 +0000

Hi,
I have Mac OS 10.5.4. So, I have downloaded Fink-0.9.0-Intel-Installer.dmg and followed the steps you directed upto FinkCommander. But I could not find ethereal package here. So, I installed wireshark package instead and SharkLauncher(actually just decompress) from your provided link for AquaEthereal. When I launch SharkLauncher, it prompts for password as expected, but after about a minute it justs close down even before showing any GUI. I tried log in as root even with no success. Could you please help me?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:44:44 +0000

Before I go the route with Fink, has anyone tried running this installer on a OS X box that has Gimp installed? I use Gimp a lot and would not like to see that X11 config stomped by the Fink install.

By: Niranjan Kunwar

Niranjan Kunwar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:47:05 +0000

Hi efran, here's how you can enable the root user in Mac OS X. You can also check one of my earlier comment which you might find useful.

By: efran

efran — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:40:18 +0000

I have the problem where AquaEthereal quit after I input a password.
I’m using default login (apple). How can I log in as a root?

By: Calculated Decision » Blog Archive » Sniffing the Ether in OS X

Calculated Decision » Blog Archive » Sniffing the Ether in OS X — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:53:48 +0000

[...] Ethereal works right out of the Fink package manager. I love working over the filters in Ethereal/Wireshark, but with Ethereal I don’t get the “live” packet captures. It’s a capture then analyze hand-off, which I’m probably going to have to go another way with sometime soon. But damn, I’m just glad to have something to help me out. [...]

By: PhoneixS

PhoneixS — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:56:22 +0000

Fantastic, I folow it and I get the ethereal runing.

By: *.Har(d)t

*.Har(d)t — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:29:08 +0000

Thank you very much. Great tutorial, very accurate.
Plus, I discovered the Fink Project, and that is HUGE !

By: Niranjan Kunwar

Niranjan Kunwar — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:35:17 +0000

Thanks for the update Gerald. Good to know that OS X packages are available as well. I just checked the sources; Fink still don’t have binary, I’m confused with the DarwinPorts and only Andreas Fink seems to have a Wireshark package but with around 20 dependencies . They’re promising a combined single installer soon, which should be attractive to Mac users.

By: Gerald Combs

Gerald Combs — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:59:00 +0000

Due to trademark issues, Ethereal was re-branded “Wireshark” (http://www.wireshark.org) last May. An OS X package is available as well.

By: Philp Stoddard

Philp Stoddard — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:27:19 +0000

thanks a million. you saved me years.