Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Mac OS X looses network connection after Ethereal activates

[Marc Liyanage <liyanage@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I just compiled Ethereal on Mac OS X.

There are some issues:


Mac OS X looses the network connection
- after I start the capture
- only when the interface is put into promiscuous mode

This also happens with tcpdump and tcpflow so I guess you
can't do much about it, may be the interaction of AirPort
with libpcap... I had the same problem with Etherpeek under
Mac OS 9. I'm just writing this to let you know...


More important:

- I had to setenv CFLAGS -traditional-cpp, otherwise
  this happens:

  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.     -Wall -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -c   buffer.c
    buffer.c:1308: bad macro argument list
  cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode
  make[2]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
  make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


- There is no pcap_version in the libpcap supplied by
  apple. I saw that you have ifdefs for this to handle
  Windows. Maybe another one for Darwin would be good.
  I had to manually insert dummy strings there.

- the gryphon and mgcp plugins conflict, I had to
  remove one manually from the Makefile:



/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _plugin_init
plugins/gryphon/.libs/libgryphon.a(packet-gryphon.o) definition of _plugin_init in section (__TEXT,__text)
plugins/mgcp/.libs/libmgcp.a(packet-mgcp.o) definition of _plugin_init in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _plugin_reg_handoff
plugins/gryphon/.libs/libgryphon.a(packet-gryphon.o) definition of _plugin_reg_handoff in section (__TEXT,__text)
plugins/mgcp/.libs/libmgcp.a(packet-mgcp.o) definition of _plugin_reg_handoff in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _version
plugins/gryphon/.libs/libgryphon.a(packet-gryphon.o) definition of _version in section (__TEXT,__const)
plugins/mgcp/.libs/libmgcp.a(packet-mgcp.o) definition of _version in section (__TEXT,__const)
rm -f .libs/etherealS.o
make[2]: *** [ethereal] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2





Cheers and thanks for a great package :-)

-Marc









Here is the configure output, maybe this is of interest to you...

[localhost:~/src] liyanage% tar -xzf ../Download/ethereal-0.8.17-a.tar.gz
[localhost:~/src] liyanage% cd ethereal-0.8.17/
[localhost:~/src/ethereal-0.8.17] liyanage% setenv CFLAGS -traditional-cpp
[localhost:~/src/ethereal-0.8.17] liyanage% ./con
config.guess* config.sub*   configure*    
[localhost:~/src/ethereal-0.8.17] liyanage% ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.3
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -traditional-cpp ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc -traditional-cpp ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E -traditional-cpp
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for flex... flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... no
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking whether yytext is a pointer... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for flex... /usr/bin/flex
checking for python... no
checking for pkgproto... no
checking for pkgmk... no
checking for pkgtrans... no
checking for rpm... no
checking to see if we can add '-Wall' to CFLAGS... yes
checking for platform-specific compiler flags... none needed
checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes
checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.0... yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking whether to use libpcap for packet capture... yes
checking for extraneous pcap header directories... not found
checking for net/bpf.h... yes
checking for pcap.h... yes
checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... yes
checking whether to use zlib for reading compressed capture files... yes
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for gzgets in -lz... yes
checking whether to enable ipv6 name resolution if available... yes
checking ipv6 stack type... kame, inet6
checking whether to install ethereal setuid... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for stdarg.h... yes
checking for netdb.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/sockio.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
checking for netinet/in.h... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
checking whether to use SSL library if available... yes
checking SSL_LIBS=... checking whether to use SNMP library if available... yes
checking for ucd-snmp/snmp.h... yes
checking for ucd-snmp/version.h... yes
checking for snmp/snmp.h... no
checking for snmp/version.h... no
checking for sprint_objid in -lsnmp... yes
checking for sa_len in struct sockaddr... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking whether cc needs -traditional... no
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strncasecmp... yes
checking for mkstemp... yes
checking for getprotobynumber... yes
checking for gethostbyname2... yes
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.3
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -p
checking whether ln -s works... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... no
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... ~/src/ethereal-0.8.17/conftest
yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... none
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... no
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -p output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... unsupported
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... no
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for dlopen in -ldl... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dld_link in -ldld... no
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
creating libtool
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating gtk/Makefile
creating packaging/Makefile
creating packaging/nsis/Makefile
creating packaging/rpm/Makefile
creating packaging/rpm/ethereal.spec
creating packaging/svr4/Makefile
creating packaging/svr4/checkinstall
creating packaging/svr4/pkginfo
creating plugins/Makefile
creating plugins/gryphon/Makefile
creating plugins/mgcp/Makefile
creating tools/Makefile
creating tools/lemon/Makefile
creating config.h
configuring in epan
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... (cached) cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -DINET6 -Wall -traditional-cpp -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I$(top_srcdir)/epan -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc -DINET6 -Wall -traditional-cpp -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I$(top_srcdir)/epan -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) cc -E -traditional-cpp
checking for bison... (cached) bison -y
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... (cached) no
checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy
checking whether yytext is a pointer... (cached) no
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for flex... (cached) /usr/bin/flex
checking to see if we can add '-Wall' to CFLAGS... yes
checking for platform-specific compiler flags... none needed
checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.1.0... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for stdarg.h... (cached) yes
checking for direct.h... no
checking for dirent.h... yes
checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for netdb.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for netinet/in.h... (cached) yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... (cached) yes
checking for arpa/nameser.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no
checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for inet_pton... no
checking for inet_ntop... no
updating cache .././config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating dfilter/Makefile
creating ftypes/Makefile
creating config.h
configuring in wiretap
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache .././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... (cached) cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc -DINET6 -Wall -traditional-cpp -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I$(top_srcdir)/epan -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc -DINET6 -Wall -traditional-cpp -I$(top_srcdir) -I$(top_srcdir)/wiretap -I$(top_srcdir)/epan -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/local/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/local/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) cc -E -traditional-cpp
checking for bison... (cached) bison -y
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... (cached) no
checking lex output file root... (cached) lex.yy
checking whether yytext is a pointer... (cached) no
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for flex... (cached) /usr/bin/flex
checking to see if we can add '-Wall' to CFLAGS... yes
checking for platform-specific compiler flags... none needed
checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.1.0... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for netinet/in.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.3
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) yes
checking for extraneous pcap header directories... not found
checking for pcap.h... (cached) yes
checking whether to use zlib for reading compressed capture files... yes
checking for zlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for gzgets in -lz... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating config.h

The Ethereal package has been configured with the following options.
                    Build ethereal : yes
                   Build tethereal : yes
                     Build editcap : yes
                     Build randpkt : no
                      Build dftest : no

                    Install setuid : no
                  Use pcap library : yes
                  Use zlib library : yes
          Use IPv6 name resolution : yes
                  Use SNMP library : yes







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Marc Liyanage                                  liyanage@xxxxxxxxx
                                            http://www.entropy.ch

   Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted
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