From 775d1a978dd59ba3a1ab266b58c74579ee179100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guy Harris Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:09:35 +0000 Subject: Note that pre-0.6 libpcap didn't handle HP-UX as well as 0.6 and later versions do, so you should use 0.6 or later. svn path=/trunk/; revision=5298 --- README.hpux | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.hpux') diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index c90426beb6..08acf9ac84 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: README.hpux,v 1.17 2002/04/29 22:55:22 guy Exp $ +$Id: README.hpux,v 1.18 2002/04/29 23:09:35 guy Exp $ Contents: @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ If you want to use Ethereal to capture packets, you will have to install libpcap; binary distributions are, as noted above, available from the Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX, as well as source code. +Versions of libpcap prior to 0.6 didn't handle HP-UX as well as 0.6 and +later versions do. You should install the latest version. + The source code is also available from the official home of libpcap and tcpdump, at @@ -184,6 +187,25 @@ which says: (although those patches may not be the ones to install - there may be later patches). +And another message to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org, from Rick Jones: + + Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:59:55 -0700 + From: Rick Jones + To: tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org + Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] I Can't Capture the Outbound Traffic + + ... + + http://itrc.hp.com/ would be one place to start in a search for the most + up-to-date patches for DLPI and the lan driver(s) used on your system (I + cannot guess because 9000/800 is too generic - one hs to use the "model" + command these days and/or an ioscan command (see manpage) to guess what + the drivers (btlan[3456], gelan, etc) might be involved in addition to + DLPI. + + Another option is to upgrade to 11i as outbound promiscuous mode support + is there in the base OS, no patches required. + Another posting: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7d6gvn%24b3%241%40ocean.cup.hp.com -- cgit v1.2.1