From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 17:19:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2DB16A4B3; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arginine.spc.org (arginine.spc.org [195.206.69.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334E043FB1; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:19:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@spc.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FB465497; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 76922-02; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from saboteur.dek.spc.org (lardystuffer.demon.co.uk [212.228.40.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705D26530E; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:25 +0100 (BST) Received: by saboteur.dek.spc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 935441A; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:19:20 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Petri Helenius Message-ID: <20031002001920.GF660@saboteur.dek.spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Petri Helenius , Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Josh Brooks , fenner@freebsd.org References: <20030917182850.Q52432-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> <20030918014203.GA59403@k7.mavetju> <3F694D56.9040609@he.iki.fi> <20030918124311.GC3431@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3F6A1CA9.5030701@he.iki.fi> <20030918210538.GB2720@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3F6A2710.5090000@he.iki.fi> <20031001171158.GK13612@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <3F7B20E5.6010301@he.iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3F7B20E5.6010301@he.iki.fi> cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Josh Brooks cc: fenner@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:19:31 -0000 On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:45:57PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: > How often is "so often"? The vendor branch is over a year old and the > bug that seems to annoy > most real users of bpf has been known for quite a while longer and took > a while to get into > the origin and now it only would need to be imported once. > > Or is there some larger issues I´m missing or is everybody asking the > same thing for > the same reason and a single update would "calm down" the chatter? Well, I'm thinking I'd like to be able to use ports to install a package of a recent tcpdump snapshot, as code of my own is in there now and I use it regularly with a project I'm working on. ports support would be beneficial (no need to mess around with cvs checkouts all the time, use a known good snapshot to build a package, unless hacking on tcpdump/pcap). tcpdump/pcap reside in vendor branches which other committers can't touch, the rules of the road are that re@ have the final say, and specific people have responsibility for the vendor branches. ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not? BMS