Re: I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 10/02/03

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To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>

    On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:45:57PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
    > How often is "so often"? The vendor branch is over a year old and the
    > bug that seems to annoy
    > most real users of bpf has been known for quite a while longer and took
    > a while to get into
    > the origin and now it only would need to be imported once.
    >
    > Or is there some larger issues I´m missing or is everybody asking the
    > same thing for
    > the same reason and a single update would "calm down" the chatter?

    Well, I'm thinking I'd like to be able to use ports to install a package
    of a recent tcpdump snapshot, as code of my own is in there now and I
    use it regularly with a project I'm working on. ports support would be
    beneficial (no need to mess around with cvs checkouts all the time, use
    a known good snapshot to build a package, unless hacking on tcpdump/pcap).

    tcpdump/pcap reside in vendor branches which other committers can't touch,
    the rules of the road are that re@ have the final say, and specific people
    have responsibility for the vendor branches.

    ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who
    want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined
    to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not?

    BMS
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