Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Rpcapd and Linux

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
Daniel Katz-Braunschweig said:
> I tried compiling rpcapd on a Redhat (Fedora) core 3 machine.  It
> compiled okay but everytime I connected I got an error "Send: Bad File
> Descriptor (code 9)."  I tracked it down to a few lines of code which
> seem to be causing a problem.  The fp object in function
> "daemon_thrdatamain" in file daemon.c seems to change after the while
> loop (I'm assuming the pcap_next_ex function has something to do with
> that.)  I made the following modifications to make it work.

Rpcapd is part of WinPcap, not Ethereal, so you should probably send this
to the winpcap-users mailing list.