Package: iftop
Version: 0.16-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
iftop contains the following structure definition in ether.h:
struct ether_header {
u_int8_t ether_dhost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
u_int8_t ether_shost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
u_int16_t ether_type;
};
Due to alignment/padding rules on the arm platform, the size of this
structure as given by sizeof(struct ether_header) is 16 instead of 14,
which renders iftop more-or-less useless.
I suggest adding __attribute__((packed)) to the definition of this
structure as in the attached patch.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armeb (armv4b)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages iftop depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6.1armeb GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level pa
iftop recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- iftop-0.16/ether.h.orig 2005-10-04 20:19:13.000000000 +0000
+++ iftop-0.16/ether.h 2005-10-04 20:14:39.000000000 +0000
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@
u_int8_t ether_dhost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
u_int8_t ether_shost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN];
u_int16_t ether_type;
-};
+} __attribute__((packed));
#endif
