Note that, although you can, in theory, do captures on Solaris if you're

not root, those captures can't be done in promiscuous mode, at least on
later versions of Solaris, and thus may not include any outgoing packets
and, therefore, those captures may not be very useful.

diff --git a/tcpdump.1 b/tcpdump.1
index ebad39bdda93e001c5ecf4fb8b1c0fcff66798c4..cd2d6b66ca6d35f9887a6d5db5cb419f22c0dcf9 100644 (file)
--- a/tcpdump.1
+++ b/tcpdump.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.115 2002-01-25 05:27:27 guy Exp $ (LBL)
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.116 2002-02-08 06:45:05 guy Exp $ (LBL)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ to capture in promiscuous mode; on those versions of Solaris, you must
 be root, or
 .I tcpdump
 must be installed setuid to root, in order to capture in promiscuous
-mode.
+mode.  Note that, on many (perhaps all) interfaces, if you don't capture
+in promiscuous mode, you will not see any outgoing packets, so a capture
+not done in promiscuous mode may not be very useful.
 .TP
 .B Under HP-UX with DLPI:
 You must be root or