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diff --git a/README.aix b/README.aix index afe1e5096d..fe9f8ee4a5 100644 --- a/README.aix +++ b/README.aix @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.aix,v 1.5 2002/05/31 10:22:51 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.aix,v 1.6 2002/10/08 07:30:08 guy Exp $ 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 @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ 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. +However, libpcap 0.7.1 doesn't work perfectly with AIX's BPF - it +appears that AIX's BPF devices inform their user that packets were +dropped since the last successful read by returning -1 and setting +"errno" to EFAULT, which libpcap 0.7.1 treats as an error. The current +CVS version of libpcap ignores EFAULT on AIX; it appears that this fixes +the problem. + Some earlier notes: the notes about libpcap may not apply, with libpcap 0.7.1, but they're preserved here for historical reasons. |