Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8283] monitor mode troubles
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:09:27 +0000

Comment # 2 on bug 8283 from 
The "ideal" way to fix this is to replace libpcap's use of libnl with
(non-GPLed and on-LGPLed!) code that *doesn't* use The Library Of The Three
Separate Versions So Far And The World Waits With Dread For libnl4, so that it
can create monN interfaces directly even on distributions that *don't* want to
link libpcap with libnl (Debian doesn't link it with libnl, as does at least
one derivative, Ubuntu; I think Fedora/Red Hat don't, either).

It's on my to-do list, but so is a lot of other stuff.  Even once that's done,
it would only help on systems with a sufficiently up-to-date libpcap.

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