Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] IPv6 capture filter.

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:56:26 -0700
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> The version of libpcap with which Tethereal is linked doesn't support
> IPv6; in fact, as it says "unknown host '3ffe'" rather than "IPv6
> address 3ffe::1 not supported", it's probably a older version of libpcap
> that doesn't even include code to support IPv6, rather than a newer
> version that, when built, couldn't find IPv6 support in the OS.

...or a newer version that wasn't configured to support IPv6.

> I'm guessing, from the "./", that you're using UNIX; you'd need to
> download a newer version of libpcap (0.7.1 is the current version) from
> tcpdump.org, compile and install that,

...and when you do, make sure you configure it with

	--enable-ipv6

so that the IPv6 support is compiled into libpcap.