Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal-0.7.7 - hangs in recvfrom() on RH6.1

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:10:32 -0800 (PST)
> I've built the recent versions of ethereal on RH6.1, but when
> I try capture, they just hang - strace/ltrace shows that it is
> is making a call to recvfrom().
> 
> Any binaries built on RH5.2 work ok on the RH6.1 system.

What does "ldd" say when run on the binaries built on RH 5.2?

What does it say whan run on the binaries built on RH 6.1?

Have you patched the source to the "libpcap" on either of the machines
on which you built Ethereal, using the patch described in the
"README.linux" file?