Re: DL_PROMISC_MULTI failing on AIX 4.3.2

[Shaun <delius () progsoc uts edu au>]

Hi Albert,

First a word of warning, the AIX BPF driver is flaky and unpredictable
(and I've had little success with the DLPI driver)

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Albert Chin wrote:

> Built libpcap-0.7.1 with BPF for AIX 4.3.2 and tcpdump died after ~1s
> with:
>   tcpdump: pcap_loop: read: Bad address

If you try using the CVS version of pcap instead this problem shouldn't
occur.

> So, rebuilt libpcap-0.7.1 with DLPI and tcpdump hangs the machine:
>   WARNING: DL_PROMISC_MULTI failed (recv_ack: promisc_multi: Primitive
>   issued in improper state)
>   WARNING: DL_PROMISC_SAP failed (recv_ack: promisc_sap: Primitive
>   issued in improper state)
>   tcpdump: WARNING: recv_ack: promisc_sap: Primitive issued in improper
>   state
>   tcpdump: listening on en0

I also have this problem on AIX5.1.

Cheers,
Shaun

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