Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump 3.9.8 / libpcap 0.9.8 releases coming shortly

2007-09-22 Thread Ken Bantoft
Yup, so we'll be kicking it out Sunday or Monday - just need Michael to plug in the USB key with the GPG keys on it. On 22-Sep-07, at 3:26 PM, Max Laier wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007, Ken Bantoft wrote: Just a heads up - we're releasing 3.9.8 / 0.9.8 this week, currently based off

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump 3.9.8 / libpcap 0.9.8 releases coming shortly

2007-09-22 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 13 September 2007, Ken Bantoft wrote: > Just a heads up - we're releasing 3.9.8 / 0.9.8 this week, currently > based off CVS as of 2007-09-13 00:00 GMT. What's the status on this? AFAIU the last remaining item has been fixed by Hannes' ipv6 length commit? -- /"\ Best regards,

Re: [tcpdump-workers] What is meant by the callback function

2007-09-22 Thread Guy Harris
Varuna De Silva wrote: > 1. what is really meant by the callback routine, what does it do? How > should I write this function?where should this be written. please be kind > to guide me to starting place. my idea is that it is the higher layer sw > which makes use of libpcap. Yes, the callback fun

[tcpdump-workers] What is meant by the callback function

2007-09-22 Thread Varuna De Silva
Hi all, With regard to one of my earlier messages, I got a comprehensive reply by Guy. and it says in one point regarding the _read() function on pcap-.cfile as below, " read_op should point to a routine that takes, as an argument, a pointer to a pcap_t, a count, a pointer to a callback