Patch to enable our tcpdump to handle CARP

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Wed Oct 19 21:57:55 UTC 2011


Howdy,

I've been trying to debug CARP problems of late. I noticed that our tcpdump didn't have CARP
support.  I took and fixed some code from OpenBSD so that our tcpdump can work with 
CARP.  Unlike OpenBSD you have to specify -T carp to read carp packets.  In their version
you specify -T VRRP, because they don't like VRRP.  I decided that we should go with
what most of the industry cares about rather than what OpenBSD cares about.

Patch is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~gnn/tcpdump-carp.diff

Technical comments welcome.

Best,
George



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