(CCing Torsten Landschoff, as I think he's the Debian maintainer for
libpcap.)
> Subject: Bug#77655: ethereal: Doesn't support tokenring on 2.4.0-testx; but does on 2.2.x
A more detailed description than "doesn't support tokenring" might be
helpful here. What does it do instead of supporting token ring?
Also, which version of Ethereal is this? It's probably not the latest
version, and may have had various changes made to it by the Debian
maintainer.
> I'm not sure, but this may be a libpcap0 bug instead...
Does the version of tcpdump in Woody support token ring?
If so, does it work with the 2.2.x kernel?
If so, does it work with the 2.4.0-textX kernels?
If the answers are "yes", "yes", and "no", it's almost certainly a
libpcap problem.
I might suggest trying the latest CVS version of libpcap from
tcpdump.org; unfortunately, on UNIXes that come with a shared-library
version of libpcap, replacing it with a version from tcpdump.org is
probably a royal pain, as the tcpdump.org version doesn't build shared
libraries, and, even if you configure it to install on top of the
existing libpcap (rather than putting it under "/usr/local"), it'll
leave the old shared library around, meaning that if you try to build
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: woody
> Kernel Version: Linux badlands.lexington.ibm.com 2.4.0-test11 #8 Mon Nov 20 10:53:58 EST 2000 i686 unknown
>
> Versions of the packages ethereal depends on:
> ii libc6 2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
> ii libglib1.2 1.2.8-1 The GLib library of C routines
> ii libgtk1.2 1.2.8-1 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
> ii libpcap0 0.4a6-3 System interface for user-level packet captu
> ii libsnmp4.1 4.1.2-2 UCD SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol
> ii xlibs 4.0.1-6 X Window System client libraries
> ii zlib1g 1.1.3-11 compression library - runtime
>
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