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Bug#964985: libpcap0.8: build with rpcap support (--enable-remote)

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Lukas Tribus

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Jul 13, 2020, 5:10:02 PM7/13/20
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Package: libpcap0.8
Version: 1.9.1-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,


since libpcap 1.9, rpcap (remote-pcap) is supported [1] and can
be enabled at build by specifying --enable-remote or in cmake
-DENABLE_REMOTE=YES [2].

Please consider enabling this for libpcap 1.9.



[1] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/266#issuecomment-617655700
[2] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/795#issuecomment-455824284



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libpcap0.8 depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-1

libpcap0.8 recommends no packages.

libpcap0.8 suggests no packages.

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Romain Francoise

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Jul 20, 2020, 7:00:02 AM7/20/20
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Hi,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:03 PM Lukas Tribus
<sand-debian-libp...@sand.ltri.eu> wrote:
> since libpcap 1.9, rpcap (remote-pcap) is supported [1] and can
> be enabled at build by specifying --enable-remote or in cmake
> -DENABLE_REMOTE=YES [2].
>
> Please consider enabling this for libpcap 1.9.

Thank you for the suggestion. Having rpcapd packaged for Debian and
having remote capture support in libpcap could be useful in some
situations, however I'm not sure that the code is supposed to be
production-ready just yet.

Guy, do you think it's generally safe to enable remote capture in
Debian's packaged libpcap?

Thanks,

Peter Vanpoucke

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Dec 29, 2022, 5:40:03 AM12/29/22
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hi

Could this get picked up? I've used a port for Linux separately before,
but that one will no longer be maintained:
<https://github.com/rpcapd-linux/rpcapd-linux/pull/9>.

Let me know if and how I can help out with this.

Kind regards

Peter Vanpoucke

Peter Vanpoucke

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Dec 29, 2022, 5:50:03 AM12/29/22
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Romain Francoise

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Dec 29, 2022, 12:10:03 PM12/29/22
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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 11:42 AM Peter Vanpoucke <peter.v...@rw3.be> wrote:
> Could this get picked up? I've used a port for Linux separately before,
> but that one will no longer be maintained:
> <https://github.com/rpcapd-linux/rpcapd-linux/pull/9>.

I will look into it.

Thanks.
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