Re: Libpcap shipped with RHEL6 GA

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

There are some things fixed in 1.1.1 that may make the upgrade worth while.
One that we saw again recently in 1.0.0 had to do with packet timing (no
callbacks until timeout).  (This was not on a RHEL system.)

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:24 AM, <vincent () cojot name> wrote:

> Hi C. L. Martinez,
>
> About the CentOS5.x/RHEL5.x packages, Yes, there were a few hiccups (due
> to me packaging the wrong libpcap by mistake) but the packages are stable
> now and we'll most likely be using them at the place where I work.
> You can get everything (binary packages + source packages) at:
> http://vscojot.free.fr/dist/snort/RHEL5
> As for RHEL6, if it's shipping with 1.0.0, then it might be easy to
> upgrade to 1.1.1 but it might have other side-effects.
> Regards,
>
> Vincent
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, C. L. Martinez wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Due to the recent problems reported by several people on this list
> > about installing daq+snort 2.9.0.1 under CentOS5.x/RHEL5.x platforms,
> > I want to know if the libpcap's version shipped with RHEL6 GA
> > (libpcap-1.0.0) exists problems to install snort 2.9.0.1+daq under a
> > RHEL6 x86_64 host.
> >
> > Is it possible to install or do I need to upgrade libpcap to the
> > latest release under RHEL6?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>
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