Re: Regarding PCAP versions

[Chandru S <chandru.rams () gmail com>]

Hi Harris,

Thanks for the reply.

I was able to find  the CHANGES file but my only concern is that it gives us
the difference between subsequent releases .I need a document which can
provide all the changes from my PCAP version to the LATEST.Is there any
document in that pattern?

Chandru S

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Chandru S wrote:
>
> 1)When I use pcap funcions for a single time it is working fine.But when we
> > run a batch of traffic testcases for many hours It is dumping(segmentation
> > fault) .Also core files gives us a indication that it happens mostly in PCAP
> > functions such as pcap_dump or pcap_loop or pcap_compile.So can any one
> > please give a solution for this issue.
>
> Either
>
>        1) there's a bug in libpcap, in which case you should try a newer
> version of libpcap (either with a newer version of your OS, if it comes with
> libpcap, or with a newer version downloaded from http://www.tcpdump.org/) and
> see if it still has the bug and, if so, report it to
> tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org or report it at the libpcap SourceForge
> site:
>
>        https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpcap/
>
> or
>
>        2) there's a bug in your program, and it's doing something such as
> passing null pointers to routines expecting those pointers to point to
> something.
>
> We'd need to see, at minimum, a stack trace from the crash to see which of
> those it is.
>
> 2)Next Is there any document which shows what is difference in each
> > releases.So that i can identify if the problem is with old version or not.
>
> See the CHANGES file in the libpcap source code.



-- 
Regards,
Chandru.
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