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tshark shows unknown mactype 2147483653

Dear support,

we have installed wireshark successfully as a package from sunfreeware.

Now we want to start tshark and we get the following message:

Capturing on lo0 tshark: Can't install filter (unknown mactype 2147483653). Please report this to the Wireshark developers. (This is not a crash; please do not report it as such.) 0 packets captured

Out platform is sun4v ( T4-1 ).

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards

Ronald

tshark

asked 29 Jul '13, 00:04

rwijna
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Solaris 10, Solaris 11, or an earlier version?

(29 Jul '13, 00:43) Guy Harris ♦♦

Solaris 10

(29 Jul '13, 00:48) rwijna

One Answer:

1	That's `DL_IPNET`, which isn't supported by libpcap. You'd need to either 1) upgrade to Solaris 11 or 2) get DL_IPNET support added to the DLPI code in libpcap in order to capture on a loopback interface on Solaris. answered 29 Jul '13, 01:14 Guy Harris ♦♦ 17.4k●3●35●196 accept rate: 19%