Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ./configure problem -- Header file net/bpf.h not found

[Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Richard Demanowski (rdemanow@xxxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> I keep getting the message "Header file net/bpf.h not found" trying to
> compile Ethereal 0.7.2 on Linux.  This happens on both a Red Hat 6 and a
> Slackware 4 box.
> 
> It was my understanding that Linux doesn't support a bpf device, so why is
> it looking for that header (which exists on neither box, btw)?

I forgot why it needs it, but IIRC, it has something to do with
making/reading the file format.

> 
> Is there something special I need to do to compile on Linux that I didn't
> see on the web site or in the README?

You'll need to download the libpcap source and do a "make install-incl" to
install the headers that ethereal needs.  I don't know why RedHat doesn't
have a libpcap-devel package...

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Jerry Talkington
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Network Appliance, Inc.

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