Wireshark on Mac OS X

Recently installed Wireshark on a Mac OS X (Snow Leopard).

1- *Read* Readmefirst.rtf document

2- Enable viewing of hidden folders on your Mac. On your terminal window:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

To disable:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

Reference: http://macs.about.com/od/tipstricks/qt/hiddenfolder.htm

3- Move Wireshark icon to Applications folder

4- Move contents of the Command Line folder to /usr/local/bin

5- Drag the ChmodBPF folder onto the StartupItems alias.

6- Open X11 terminal

7- Change ownership of some files:

cd /Library/StartupItems/
sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF

Reference: http://www.kleinsch.com/2009/10/03/wireshark-chmodbpf-errors-on-snow-leopard/

8- Restart the machine.