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- tcpdump-richard-1.7 24 Feb 1996
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-
- This version of tcpdump is based on tcpdump-3.0.2 and has all known
- patches applied (the ones you can find separately at several ftp sites
- under the names tcpdump.patch[123], and those in tcpdump-3.0.3 for
- Linux). In other words: to the best of my knowledge it is at least as up
- to date as those versions with some additions and bugfixes of my own.
-
- My contribution to this release mainly consists of the addition of the
- capability to exchange files with the utility 'snoop' as found on
- Solaris platforms. tcpdump will read them automagically and write them
- by specifying a file with option -W instead of plain -w. This has been
- documented in the manual page.
-
- On Linux, tcpdump will now allow you to filter on PPP interfaces too.
- Before, filtered packets from a PPP interface were discarded. This fix
- is a hack BTW, what really should be fixed is the PPP stack in Linux
- IMHO.
-
- I tested this release on Linux and SunOS. If I made a mistake, this may
- not compile anymore on the other supported platforms. Please mail me if
- you find this to be true so I can fix it.
-
- Why yet another distribution? I sent patches for my changes to the
- original makers from LBL and Adam Caldwell, but neither have
- incorporated them in the existing distributions. Adam's viewpoint is
- that these patches should be in the distribution from LBL (rightly so,
- they are not Linux specific) but LBL have not brought out a new release
- yet.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Just type 'make' in the top level directory of this distribution.
-
-
-
- Richard Kooijman
- R.Kooijman@pi.net
-