Re: [tcpdump-workers] Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without native IPv6 support

2004-07-21 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 21, 2004, at 4:39 AM, John Hawkinson wrote: Won't this have unfortunate effects on performance (and possibly storage, but that's less concerning) for some people in borderline situations? Only if they're running a version of tcpdump built without IPv6 support. The change wouldn't affect v

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without

2004-07-21 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from John Hawkinson, sie wrote: > Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 > at 23:21:17 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) it defines DEFAULT_SNAPLEN as 96 unconditionally, rather > >than, as is done now, as 68 if INET6 isn't defined and as

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without native IPv6 support

2004-07-21 Thread John Hawkinson
Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 at 23:21:17 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) it defines DEFAULT_SNAPLEN as 96 unconditionally, rather > than, as is done now, as 68 if INET6 isn't defined and as 96 > if it is defined; > > The first seems OK to me,

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without

2004-07-21 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Guy Harris, sie wrote: > I have some changes to support that. > > The main change is to add a "union h6addr" to "tcpdump-stdinc.h", along > with defintions of IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED, AF_INET6, and NI_MAXHOST if > they're not defined. > > Some side-effects of this: >

[tcpdump-workers] Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without native IPv6 support

2004-07-20 Thread Guy Harris
I have some changes to support that. The main change is to add a "union h6addr" to "tcpdump-stdinc.h", along with defintions of IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED, AF_INET6, and NI_MAXHOST if they're not defined. Some side-effects of this: 1) it defines DEFAULT_SNAPLEN as 96 unconditionally, rather