Re: tcpdump 3.9.8 / libpcap 0.9.8 releases

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni () cacetech com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris" <guy () alum mit edu>
To: <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump 3.9.8 / libpcap 0.9.8 releases


> Gianluca Varenni wrote:
> > After a quick compilation test, libpcap compiles ok (albeit with some new
> > warnings popping out from VC6).
> >
> > tcpdump (0.9.x branch) has some problems, instead:
> >
> > - print-rsvp.c doesn't compile as it's not strictly C
>
> I've checked in a fix (0.9 and main branch).
>
> > - print-icmp.c
> >
> > -----
> > struct icmp_mpls_ext_common_header_t {
> > };
> > -----
> > This 0-length structure doesn't seem to be used at all and VC6 doesn't
> > like
> > 0-length structures. Ok to completely remove the structure definition?
>
> Yes - I removed the version you commented out, and propagated that to the
> main branch.

Thanks. I was planning to propagate the change later today :-).

> > -print-pflog.c: this file does not compile at all because 
> > HAVE_NET_PFVAR_H
> > is not available under windows. I can probably easily fix it by taking 
> > the
> > needed files from BSD, but it make take a couple hours to do that.
>
> The only platforms on which print-pflog.c should be compiled are the ones
> that have the PF packet filter; Windows isn't one of them, so that
> shouldn't be compiled at all on Windows.

I removed the print-pflog.c files from the Win32 projects/makefiles and 
committed it to 3.9 and head.

> > Can we delay the release of 0.9.8/3.9.8 until tomorrow?
>
> Yes - I'd like to at least try to get some of the other stuff people have
> asked about checked in as well.

Talking about patches and such, back in mid-june this year I submitted a 
patch regarding several wlan filter generation problems, but I didn't get 
any feedback. Any ideas/suggestions? At the moment I've included the patch 
in WinPcap 4.1beta.

The mail is archived here

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.tcpdump.devel/2268

Have a nice day
GV



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