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diff --git a/contrib/libpcap/README.aix b/contrib/libpcap/README.aix deleted file mode 100644 index dcddb61..0000000 --- a/contrib/libpcap/README.aix +++ /dev/null @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@ -Using BPF: - -(1) AIX 4.x's version of BPF is undocumented and somewhat unstandard; the - current BPF support code includes changes that should work around - that; it appears to compile and work on at least one AIX 4.3.3 - machine. - - Note that the BPF driver and the "/dev/bpf" devices might not exist - on your machine; AIX's tcpdump loads the driver and creates the - devices if they don't already exist. Our libpcap should do the - same, and the configure script should detect that it's on an AIX - system and choose BPF even if the devices aren't there. - -(2) If libpcap doesn't compile on your machine when configured to use - BPF, or if the workarounds fail to make it work correctly, you - should send to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org a detailed bug report (if - the compile fails, send us the compile error messages; if it - compiles but fails to work correctly, send us as detailed as - possible a description of the symptoms, including indications of the - network link-layer type being wrong or time stamps being wrong). - - If you fix the problems yourself, please send to patches@tcpdump.org - a patch, so we can incorporate them into the next release. - - If you don't fix the problems yourself, you can, as a workaround, - make libpcap use DLPI instead of BPF. - - This can be done by specifying the flag: - - --with-pcap=dlpi - - to the "configure" script for libpcap. - -If you use DLPI: - -(1) It is a good idea to have the latest version of the DLPI driver on - your system, since certain versions may be buggy and cause your AIX - system to crash. DLPI is included in the fileset bos.rte.tty. I - found that the DLPI driver that came with AIX 4.3.2 was buggy, and - had to upgrade to bos.rte.tty 4.3.2.4: - - lslpp -l bos.rte.tty - - bos.rte.tty 4.3.2.4 COMMITTED Base TTY Support and Commands - - Updates for AIX filesets can be obtained from: - ftp://service.software.ibm.com/aix/fixes/ - - These updates can be installed with the smit program. - -(2) After compiling libpcap, you need to make sure that the DLPI driver - is loaded. Type: - - strload -q -d dlpi - - If the result is: - - dlpi: yes - - then the DLPI driver is loaded correctly. - - If it is: - - dlpi: no - - Then you need to type: - - strload -f /etc/dlpi.conf - - Check again with strload -q -d dlpi that the dlpi driver is loaded. - - Alternatively, you can uncomment the lines for DLPI in - /etc/pse.conf and reboot the machine; this way DLPI will always - be loaded when you boot your system. - -(3) There appears to be a problem in the DLPI code in some versions of - AIX, causing a warning about DL_PROMISC_MULTI failing; this might - be responsible for DLPI not being able to capture outgoing packets. |
