Wireshark on Snow Leopard
by teknopipo on Apr.16, 2010, under Telecom
Finally fixed a bug that’s been annoying me for months. I managed to get Wireshark up and running on OSX Snow Leopard – without any crappy workarounds such as running it inside a virtual XP machine. The video below by dangribbin explains it all.
Summarizing the steps:
- Download and mount Wireshark for 10.5 Leopard Intel
- Drag Wireshark to Applications
- Open a terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
killall Finder
- com.apple.Finder (i.e. Finder with a capital F) did not work for me!
- For more info on defaults type man defaults. - Create /usr/local/bin/ if you don’t already have one.
- Drag the Command Line utilities into /usr/local/bin/.
- Drag ChmodBPF folder to Startup Items.
- In the terminal type:
sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF - Launch Wireshark
- Add /usr/share/snmp/mibs/ under Edit → Preferences → Name Resolution → SMI (MIB and PIB) paths → Edit → New
- Reboot, done!
October 20th, 2010 on 6:35 pm
Mi problem is that under edit-preferences-Name resolution i got no SMI (MIB and PIB) edit option i wen i try to scan there are no interfaces to capture on!
October 21st, 2010 on 7:58 am
Have you got the latest Wireshark version? What options do you get under Edit>Preferences>Name Resolution?