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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2002-05-31 10:22:51 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2002-05-31 10:22:51 +0000
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Put in an update about libpcap 0.7.1 appearing to handle BPF not too
badly (especially given problems that have been seen with DLPI, e.g. not seeing outgoing packets). svn path=/trunk/; revision=5605
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-$Id: README.aix,v 1.4 2000/10/08 17:16:29 gerald Exp $
+$Id: README.aix,v 1.5 2002/05/31 10:22:51 guy Exp $
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+libpcap 0.7.1 and later appear to work on AIX when using AIX's native
+BPF; that appears to work better than DLPI does. Note that you may have
+to run AIX's tcpdump, as root, before configuring, building, and
+installing libpcap, in order to create the "/dev/bpf" devices and load
+the BPF driver.
+
+Some earlier notes: the notes about libpcap may not apply, with libpcap
+0.7.1, but they're preserved here for historical reasons.
+
+The glib, gtk+, and Ethereal notes still apply.
After much work and toil, Craig Rodrigues was able to compile libpcap
and Ethereal on AIX 4.3.2. His odyssey is document in various e-mails