Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Hangs when capturing starts

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:56:32 -0800
> This turned out to be pretty easy.  I was able to install the tcpdump
> SRPM, drop the patch into SOURCES, and modify the spec file accordingly.  
> From there I created a modified SRPM, as well as binary packages for the
> Intel and SPARC platforms.  I did this for the RH 6.0 and 6.1
> distributions.  The files are in http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald if
> anyone wants to try them out.

Hmm.

We should perhaps think of providing packages for various flavors of
Linux, and providing links to them from a page on the Ethereal Web site
- or perhaps even bundling them into the distribution; make it as easy
as possible for people to add in a fixed "libpcap".