Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2021-03-28 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Steev, While the libnl landscape indeed seems to have simplified since the last time I took a look at it, I don't think we are in a good place right now. The last upload of libnl3 was in 2018. The packaging Git repository has disappeared. Upstream-wise, there's a 3.5.0 release on GitHub (picked

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2021-03-24 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Hi Romain, It has been a "few" years since this bug has seen much action, and I would like to inquire about the possibility of enabling this now that libnl-1 and libnl-2 seem to be gone. There is a project called Nzyme (http://nzyme.org) and it depends on libpcap being able to put a device into m

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2012-01-29 Thread Guy Harris
On Jan 29, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Romain Francoise wrote: > Guy Harris writes: > >> Another possibility might be to add support to libpcap to use libmnl for >> this, so libpcap can just use that. [...] If that makes sense, let me >> know, and I can look at updating libpcap so that it can work with

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2012-01-29 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Guy, Sorry for the delay in responding to this, and thanks for providing your use case for this bug. Guy Harris writes: > Another possibility might be to add support to libpcap to use libmnl for > this, so libpcap can just use that. [...] If that makes sense, let me > know, and I can look at

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2011-12-23 Thread Guy Harris
(I'm doing "Reply all", as I think sending to "651...@bugs.debian.org" will get this reply into the bug log. If the right thing to do is to reply *only* to that address, so you don't get your own copy, let me know.) On Dec 12, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Romain Francoise wrote: > Hi Guy, > > Guy Harris

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2011-12-12 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi Guy, Guy Harris writes: > Using libnl to create a monN interface works better than using Wireless > Extension ioctls to turn on monitor mode, which is what libpcap does if > *not* linked with libnl. Can you provide more information about the problems the libnl mode fixes? How exactly does it

Bug#651783: libpcap0.8: libpcap should be linked with libnl

2011-12-11 Thread Guy Harris
Package: libpcap0.8 Version: 1.1.1-2 Severity: normal libpcap's configure script, when run on Linux, checks to see whether libnl is present and usable and, if so, uses it to create monN interfaces when monitor mode is requested for 802.11 adapters. This is used by tcpdump, and by TShark and du