Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] compilation questions and possible bug...

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From: sen_ml@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:36:10 +0900
hello-

  first, thanks for ethereal!  i really love this program.  it's a great
tool -- i'm using it for diagnostics and educating the folks around me.

  i have a few questions:

  1) i'm trying to compile ethereal 0.5.0 on a debian system but for
  .configure, get:

    checking for net/bpf.h... no
    configure: error: Header file net/bpf.h not found.

    i guess this is because i don't have the berkeley packet filter?  i
  know there is a debian package that works, but it is not the latest
  version of ethereal.  any help for compiling would be appreciated.

  2) i've manage to get the latest version working on freebsd but the
  -t a option doesn't appear to work (though it does for version 0.4.1
  on both freebsd and debian).  what happens is that the time column
  displays 0.000000 for each row.

  3) it doesn't appear to handle files larger than a certain size --
  i've found that 20 meg files cause core dumps.  i realize i can use
  tcpdump to make the files ethereal deals with smaller, but it would be
  nice not to have to do this.  any thoughts on this matter?

  thanks for your attention.