Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [tcpdump-workers] FYI: tcpdump with Endace DAG cards
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 7:51 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >
> > > Are you shipping this modified version of Ethereal with your hardware
> > > product?
> >
> > Where did they mention a modified version of Ethereal? (The libpcap
> > patches - which I haven't rejected, I just haven't had time to look at
> > them and check them in; changing jobs tends to leave one with less free
> > time for a while... - should allow Ethereal to capture on those devices
> > without changes to Ethereal, and if "pcap_findalldevs()" lists those
> > devices then, once Ethereal is converted to use that routine if
> > present, they should even show up in the drop-down list.)
>
> Hmmm, maybe I assumed too much. I went to the web site referenced, and
> tried to down load the instaructions (sic)[1] but got:
>
> The requested URL /apps/ethereal-dag-build.gz was not found on this
> server.
OK, the file is actually ethereal-dag-build.tar.gz, and all it contains is
a MANIFEST and a README that describes how to build Ethereal with the new
version of libpcap, so, indeed, there are no GPL issues at all.
Sorry for any confusion.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
