Hi Wireshark Dev Team,
I’ve created a patch for a few additional L2TP filters (assigned tunnel/session ID), and I would like to contribute them back to the project…
I originally created and tested the patch in Wireshark 1.6.5 and everything works great. Then after going through the Developer Wiki and checking-out the latest source (1.7.x), I found that I cannot build on our local Linux distro (based on RHEL 5.50, old I know). I needed to update autoconf, gtk+, and then stopped at glibc. I don’t suspect the patch will be sensitive to the different releases, so do you need testing done on 1.7.x, as well? I could get a VM up (Fedora/Ubuntu or something), but given the nature of these changes, I’d like to see if you feel that additional testing is necessary.
Also, I don’t know much about the Wireshark release process, but can this patch be integrated into branches 1.6.x (trunk-1.6) and below, as well as the latest 1.7.x (trunk)? Do you usually commit to all branches?
Let me know.
Thanks,
-Andy
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6841