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on OSX I had an issue running the sniffer after following the readme (#831)

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* on OSX I had an issue running the sniffer after following the readme
due to dnet not being installed. This may be listed elsewhere in the repo,
but it's nice to have all installation dependencies for a tool listed in
the readme for the tool
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Michael Aaron
2016-10-18 13:19:30 -06:00
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@@ -94,3 +94,17 @@ This will connect to stock openthread ncp firmware over the given UART,
make the node into a promiscuous mode sniffer on the given channel,
open up wireshark, and start streaming packets into wireshark.
## Troubleshooting
Q: sniffer.py throws ```ImportError: No module named dnet``` on OSX
A: install the libdnet package for OSX -
```
brew install --with-python libdnet
mkdir -p /Users/YourUsernameHere/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages
touch /Users/YourUsernameHere/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/homebrew.pth
echo 'import site; site.addsitedir("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages")' >> /Users/YourUsernameHere/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/homebrew.pth
```
you may need to reinstall the scapy pip dependency listed above
you can read more about this issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26229057/scapy-installation-fails-on-osx-with-dnet-import-error