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Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:52:20 -0400
Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote: > A while ago, tcpdump and its configuration script were modified - > mainly by Bill Fenner, as I remember - so that it didn't require a > contemporary version of libpcap, and could be built with older versions > of libpcap. For instance, I think, the FreeBSD that is JUNOS is an example of that. I don't know if the libpcap is built in some special way to accomodate Juniper hardware. Maybe. I don't think it's that old anymore. > It also supports versions of libpcap that don't include pcap_create() > and pcap_activate(); those first appeared in libpcap 1.0, which was > released in 2008, almost 16 years ago. > Is there any reason not to require libpcap 1.0 or later? If there is, > is there any reason not to require libpcap 0.7 or later? I think libpcap 1.0 or later is good. -- Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF () sandelman ca> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting ) Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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Current thread:
- Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Guy Harris (Apr 12)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Michael Richardson (Apr 14)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Denis Ovsienko (Apr 19)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Guy Harris (Apr 19)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Denis Ovsienko (Apr 25)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers (May 05)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Guy Harris (Apr 19)
- Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap? Guy Harris (May 19)