I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:45:57PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> How often is "so often"? The vendor branch is over a year old and the 
> bug that seems to annoy
> most real users of bpf  has been known for quite a while longer and took 
> a while to get into
> the origin and now it only would need to be imported once.
> 
> Or is there some larger issues I´m missing or is everybody asking the 
> same thing for
> the same reason and a single update would "calm down" the chatter?

Well, I'm thinking I'd like to be able to use ports to install a package
of a recent tcpdump snapshot, as code of my own is in there now and I
use it regularly with a project I'm working on. ports support would be
beneficial (no need to mess around with cvs checkouts all the time, use
a known good snapshot to build a package, unless hacking on tcpdump/pcap).

tcpdump/pcap reside in vendor branches which other committers can't touch,
the rules of the road are that re@ have the final say, and specific people
have responsibility for the vendor branches.

ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who
want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined
to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not?

BMS