Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Minor probs installing 0.9.0 under Solaris 2.8 (zlib, IP

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:40:16 -0800 (PST)
> 2) We installed Solaris 2.8 with IPv6 support enabled, yet
>    the configuration output reads as follows:
> 
>       checking whether to enable ipv6 name resolution if available... yes
>       checking ipv6 stack type... unknown, none
> 
>    with the result that the ethereal binary is built
>    without IPv6 support.  We have no clue as to whether
>    this indicates a minor flaw in the configure system
>    for Ethereal, or some misunderstanding on our part as
>    to how IPv6 is supported on Solaris,

It indicates that nobody has yet added to Ethereal's configure script
any support for detecting the Solaris 2.8 IPv6 stack.