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| author | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-03-28 18:32:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-03-28 18:32:03 +0000 |
| commit | 2b86d46d706b3f60e3804b6ee9348752aa601b9a (patch) | |
| tree | 73171006c6a2e830fe9b6742f081ab1e0b24131c /README | |
| parent | 4932ef3dcc5b76692e982fbb4d17153e998f69ba (diff) | |
Jun-ichiro's IPv6 patch is merged in with ethereal and now uses the new
proto*() functions. The configure script tries to use ipv6 name resolution if
it knows the type of ipv6 stack the user has (this can be avoided with the
--disable-ipv6 switch) Additionally, the configure script now deals with wiretap
better. If the user doesn't want to compile wiretap, the wiretap is never
visited. A few unnecessary #includes were removed from some wiretap files, and
a CPP macro was moved from bpf.c to wtap.h.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=229
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 24 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -13,13 +13,17 @@ The latest distribution can be found in the subdirectory http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution +Interesting and exotic packet traces can be found at + + http://ethereal.zing.org/~gram/sample.html + Installation ------------ Ethereal is known to compile and run on the following systems: - - Linux (2.0.x) + - Linux (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x) - Solaris (2.5.1, 2.6) - FreeBSD (2.2.5, 2.2.6) @@ -64,8 +68,22 @@ If you want to add support for other packet-capture file formats, please look at the wiretap source code in the wiretap directory. Please report any problems that are wiretap related to -Gilbert Ramirez <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu>. He uses token-ring at work, so he -is especially interested in any non-token-ring trace files you can send him. +Gilbert Ramirez <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu>. + + +IPv6 +---- +If your operating system includes IPv6 support, ethereal will attempt to +use reverse name resolution capabilities when decoding IPv6 packets. If +you want to turn off name resolution while using ethereal, start ethereal +with the "-n" option. If you would like to compile ethereal without +support for IPv6 name resolution, use the "--disable-ipv6" option with +"./configure". If you compile ethereal without IPv6 name resolution, +you will still be able to decode IPv6 packets, but you'll only see IPv6 +addresses, not host names. + +The "Follow TCP Stream" feature only supports TCP over IPv4. Support for TCP +over IPv6 is planned. Disclaimer |