On Friday 09 November 2007 15:38:13 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:50:49PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > The tcng project has two parts: tcng and tcsim. Right now, tcsim is not > > included in the package, which means that half the functionality of the > > package is ununsable. This is really annoying -- please enable and > > install tcsim. > > Alas, tcsim (and the "C" kernel module target of tcng) are tightly tied > to internal structures of 2.4 kernel. Unlike other network simulators, > tcsim takes a chunk of the kernel (netfilter and related parts), heavily > modifies that and runs under its control. While exact, this approach is > pretty fragile and understandably breaks when the kernel changes a lot. > > Unfortunately, no one bothered to port tcsim to 2.6 kernels yet, and it's > a sizeable piece of work. The last upstream release happened in 2004. > > It could be possible to copy the relevant parts of 2.4 kernel and ancient > iproute2, long since removed from Debian, to get tcsim working, yet I'm > not sure if that's a good idea.
Hmmm... well, that's rather disappointing to hear. =( Looks like I'm going to personally have to take a different route then, but that's not the packages fault. Well, to address this bug, can you at least add some information about why tcsim is missing to somewhere obvious, like the package description or README.Debian? For instance, in the description and/or in README.Debian perhaps add the following sentence: This package does not include the tcsim program, because it does not work with any modern Linux kernels. I'm sad to hear about the state of things, but I think that would at least address this bug well enough for me. As it is, I think other users could be confused as I was as to why you were disabling tcsim support! Thanks for the quick reply, BTW. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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