Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] HP-UX 11.0 and capturing permission problem

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:13:27 -0800 (PST)
> Perhaps you have to do something *different* on HP-UX 11.

The article at

	http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=495091572

seems to imply that this is the case:

	See /usr/share/doc/11.00RelNotes :
  
	Data Link provider Interface (DLPI) -- changed at 10.30 and 11.0 
  
	   * The PPA number for DLPI is no longer equivalent to the 
	     network management identifier (nmid). The PPA number has
	     been changed to be the same as the card instance number
  
	To solve this problem I used, as a model, the sample program :
  
	     /usr/lib/demos/networking/dlpi/connections.c
  
	to modify the function get_dlpi_ppa() in the program pcap-dlpi.c
	(libpcap-0.4a6 package). 
  
	Regards,
	Roger Monnerat
	Geneva, Switzerland

I'll trawl some more through Deja to see if I can find what code he
used.  NOTE: I know next to nothing about HP-UX - we have an HP-UX 11.x
box here, so I'll see what I can get from it as well.

(Sometimes I think there should be a law that you can't change your raw
packet access interface without providing updates for "libpcap" to the
folks at "tcpdump.org"....)