Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability

2004-06-24 Thread Eddie Kohler
On Jun 24, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Jefferson Ogata wrote: It would seem to me that the best approach would be to have a format configuration file when an entry for each dissected protocol. Local installations could tweak it however they like. That would be great -- but the default should be the old fo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability

2004-06-24 Thread Jefferson Ogata
Eddie Kohler wrote: It would seem to me that the best approach here would be to design a new format that applied *only in those cases where it was required*: gre/l2tp/mpls tunneling. And of course it doesn't matter how new protocols are printed, there are no backwards compatibility issues. It w

Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability

2004-06-24 Thread Eddie Kohler
Hannes, does this break existing scripts ? most certainly: however we have not yet found out how to progress the software in terms of new protcols and multilayer encapsualation support (gre/l2tp/mpls) and still stay 100% downwards compatible; You don't need to stay 100% compatible. However, some o

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Drop unneeded capabilities

2004-06-24 Thread Jefferson Ogata
Michael Richardson wrote: "Pekka" == Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pekka> Have you checked the code in the CVS? It already includes a Pekka> "droproot" option. Pekka> Yours is slightly different, though, as it uses Pekka> (Linux-specific?) capabilities. I'm not sure if

Re: [tcpdump-workers] pcap_open_live error

2004-06-24 Thread Bowser Jason S Contr AFRL/IFTA
Title: Message I have an update to the problem.  i no longer think that it is a irix issue as i have compiled this code on a redhat 9.0 box as well as a mandrake box.  the problem still exists   Please any help is appreciated   thank you jason -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability

2004-06-24 Thread Hannes Gredler
eddie, i did most of the vflag changes in the last 18 months along with my work on the rsvp,bgp,isis,ospf,lmp,rip,pim,eigrp dissectors; the rationale behind this is that you get brief one-line information that is good enough for troubleshooting and for a detailed information (vv) we switch to mul

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Drop unneeded capabilities

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Pekka" == Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pekka> Have you checked the code in the CVS? It already includes a Pekka> "droproot" option. Pekka> Yours is slightly different, though, as it uses Pekka> (Linux-specific?) capabilities.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] Drop unneeded capabilities

2004-06-24 Thread Jefferson Ogata
Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Matt Beaumont wrote: I've written a little patch to drop all but the CAP_NET_ADMIN and CAP_NET_RAW capabilities immediately if tcpdump is running with root privileges. The idea is to limit the damage done by an exploit against tcpdump. Some of the inspirati