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| author | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2002-05-31 10:22:51 +0000 |
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| committer | guy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2002-05-31 10:22:51 +0000 |
| commit | 002de82613c51b5353605c8909f3d0f6719c81b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c05affbe59d64dc39d56354560a71e4601ab6b2 /README.aix | |
| parent | 80038e92bda3a6fec10b8ef17e956fbcc213ae18 (diff) | |
Put in an update about libpcap 0.7.1 appearing to handle BPF not too
badly (especially given problems that have been seen with DLPI, e.g. not
seeing outgoing packets).
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@5605 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
Diffstat (limited to 'README.aix')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.aix | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.aix b/README.aix index 09bc669eb6..afe1e5096d 100644 --- a/README.aix +++ b/README.aix @@ -1,4 +1,15 @@ -$Id: README.aix,v 1.4 2000/10/08 17:16:29 gerald Exp $ +$Id: README.aix,v 1.5 2002/05/31 10:22:51 guy Exp $ + +libpcap 0.7.1 and later appear to work on AIX when using AIX's native +BPF; that appears to work better than DLPI does. Note that you may have +to run AIX's tcpdump, as root, before configuring, building, and +installing libpcap, in order to create the "/dev/bpf" devices and load +the BPF driver. + +Some earlier notes: the notes about libpcap may not apply, with libpcap +0.7.1, but they're preserved here for historical reasons. + +The glib, gtk+, and Ethereal notes still apply. After much work and toil, Craig Rodrigues was able to compile libpcap and Ethereal on AIX 4.3.2. His odyssey is document in various e-mails |