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Troubleshooting Ofdissector: a Wireshark plugin to analyze OpenFlow 1.3

In this last post, I explained how to install the last version of the OFDissector.

I still had one other problem after installing it.

Whenever I run wireshark as a root user I had this following error:

Lua: Error during loading: [string "/usr/share/wireshark/init.lua"]:45: dofile has been disabled

What happens is that whenever something tries to run LUA code with root permissions, that script is blocked.

What you gotta do to fix that: you have to not run wireshark with root permissions. To do that you might want to still be able to capture traffic from all interfaces, then you should do what is described here:

sudo setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap

After that you should be able to run Wireshark without any problems.

Thanks

Published inOpenFlow 1.3

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