Mac (Mojave): Error: Failed to listen on network interface: No such file or directory

[michaelterryio]

Full message:

Error: Failed to listen on network interface: No such file or directory (os error 2)

This is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, early 2015 running Mojave (10.14).

[ebroto]

Probably related to #31, a failure to listen on one interface will prevent the program from running even if there are other working interfaces.

@grishy is working on a fix, in the meantime, does it work for you using the -i flag and pointing to a working interface?

[michaelterryio]

I have 8 interfaces listed by ifconfig and I got the same error for each of them.

[zomars]

@michaelterryio run with sudo

[tuledev]

I got the same error without sudo.
And with sudo, it doesn't show any data.

Thanks. Look like a great repo.

[johngrib]

I got the same error with sudo.

[imsnif]

@michaelterryio - are you on wifi? maybe the interface you're looking for is in iwconfig? Thankyou for your patience, we're smoothing out the edges of the multi-platform part :)

@tuledev - have you tried (or would you be willing to try) this? I think it might help in your case: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/208478/how-do-i-disable-system-integrity-protection-sip-aka-rootless-on-macos-os-x

[andrewrech]

Thanks for this great repo! I'm hardwired with SIP disabled, and I get:

$ bandwhich -i en0
Error: Failed to listen on network interface: No such file or directory (os error 2)

Running under sudo does not error, but shows no activity under any interface, similar to @tuledev. Works perfectly on my Linux box.

Darwin localhost.local 19.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.2.0: Sat Nov  9 03:47:04 PST 2019; root:xnu-6153.61.1~20/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.15.2
BuildVersion:	19C57

bandwhich 0.6.0

@imsnif

[michaelterryio]

@michaelterryio - are you on wifi? maybe the interface you're looking for is in iwconfig? Thankyou for your patience, we're smoothing out the edges of the multi-platform part :)

@tuledev - have you tried (or would you be willing to try) this? I think it might help in your case: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/208478/how-do-i-disable-system-integrity-protection-sip-aka-rootless-on-macos-os-x

sudo worked. No iwconfig: The wireless lan interface should be listed by ipconfig on Mac and is apparently en1 by default, and sudo what -i en1 worked for me.

Thanks.

[michaelterryio]

I mean, works in the sense I don't get that error. I'm watching youtube videos and all I see is this.

I'm seeing mixed info about which of en0 and en1 are the wireless interface, but either way, I don't see any bandwidth when watching yt vids.

[imsnif]

There's another issue about the "no traffic displayed" issue, so seeing as this is the "only" problem left, I'd like us to move the discussion there: #51