Upgrading libpcap would affect all ports, so its more of a
	tech-net question than a port-vax.

	Do you have a test case than can be used to reproduce the problem
	- it would be nice to check it on other NetBSD platforms...

                David/absolute
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 nbsd@righi.dhs.org wrote:

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> Hello,
> I WAs porting my sniff application from the FreeBSD ports collection to
> NetBSD it is something fast and automatic, the systems are similar.
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> So I just created a new sniff version 2.0 just for NetBSD.
> It also work on FreeBSD and Solaris but I will publish it on NetBSD for
> now.
> The problem is with a libpcap internal routine which I think on NetBSD it
> is buggy.
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> I use in the pcap_compile function the optimization optoin set to 1.
> IT crashes. It works only if I put the optimization option set to 0.
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> Then I compiled the libpcap from surces the latest 0.4 version and using
> this version it works with optimizatoin option set to 1 also.
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> The libpcap installed on NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (4000/60) has a problem in the
> internal pcap_optimize routine which I think is fixed in the 0.4 version
> because it works.
> 
> Could anyone update the libpcap version to the 0.4  for the future
> NetBSD snapshot and releases ?
> 
> Is it a possible thing ??
> 
> Thanks
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> Rick
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