El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 18:16, Michael Richardson
() escribió:
> So I'm hearing that on Linux we should support V2 and V3.
> *That we continue to need V2 support from the kernel for immediate mode*
>
I think so, yes.
> (This has implications to the *kernel* people as to what they can rip out,
>
On Oct 8, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> I don't really know which "legacy" compiler stuff that we may wish to
> continue to tolerate in tcpdump, but which we can dispense with in libpcap.
At this point, in the master branch, I'm not sure there's a difference between
how much C99
On Oct 8, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> And that's why I think we would agree that we don't want to let tcpdump go
> all C99, etc. yet, because people often *do* want the latest tcpdump, on top
> of a kernel-compatible libpcap.
What do you mean by "all C99"? The master branch's
El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 13:29, Mario Rugiero () escribió:
> It depends.
> Which distro is it?
> When does it EOL?
> Do we expect a release of libpcap before that?
> What version of libpcap does it ship?
> Do the providers ship it with custom patches?
> For the "official" distro package, is it li
On Oct 8, 2019, at 9:29 AM, Mario Rugiero wrote:
> Supporting TPACKET_V2 should suffice to fill this gap, right?
> We would still need to make a few changes, currently you need to use a
> kernel which doesn't support TPACKET_V3 to use this correctly.
> It shouldn't be a big change to make immedia
El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 3:59, Michael Richardson
() escribió:
> There are many people who use prototype new things this way.
> Even IP/IPv6 stuff that use a different protocol number. Often they move
> away from libpcap as their requirements grow, but they start that way.
>
> One reason to do
From: Mario Rugiero
> Sent: 07 October 2019 19:07
...
> > If we were to drop TPACKET_V1 and TPACKET_V2 support, that'd mean we'd be
> > dropping 2.x kernels and older 3.x kernels as
> > targets, and would require that the headers with which libpcap is being
> > built be new enough to support TPAC
