Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Hangs when capturing starts

[Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > This turned out to be pretty easy.  I was able to install the tcpdump
> > SRPM, drop the patch into SOURCES, and modify the spec file accordingly.
> > From there I created a modified SRPM, as well as binary packages for the
> > Intel and SPARC platforms.  I did this for the RH 6.0 and 6.1
> > distributions.  The files are in http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald if
> > anyone wants to try them out.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> We should perhaps think of providing packages for various flavors of
> Linux, and providing links to them from a page on the Ethereal Web site
> - or perhaps even bundling them into the distribution; make it as easy
> as possible for people to add in a fixed "libpcap".

I'd really like to see this, along with these other configure options:

	--with-included-libpcap
	--with-static

The bonus would be that you could be guaranteed a clean build of libpcap
that is known to work with ethereal, as well as not having to worry
about applying any libpcap patches/etc. Users would be free to use the
vendor/rpm supplied version if they wished, but at least this way
ethereal could be downloaded and compiled without needing any extra
stuff. 

-- Nathan

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