tcpdump:libpcap:compilation problem

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Dagmar d'Surreal wrote:

> Original text cut

My fault is that the instructions were for SlackwareLinux 3.3 andI *did not*
mention that!

Please, accept my appologies ...

But also you can read  from the INSTALL of tcpdump,
that *if* you want you can leave it under the structure
of tcpdump source tree, especially if you have any
problems.

On my system it wouldn't want to compile *without*
first building libpcap. After building libpcap, the libpcap
software tries to install a file called bpf.h under
/usr/local/include/net, but this on my system failed as there
were not a directory named /usr/local/include/net.

So, I simply created /usr/local/include/net to and
the bpf.h file in there. I *do not know* if this would be
a problem in my feature compilations

Exactly the same problem I had on OpenBSD 2.3,
and the same solution applied.

Considering both of the problematic compiles on the
named Unix-es, in my opinion it is much better just to
do what is said in INSTALL - just untar the libpcap
under tcpdump, of course I am sure that probably
the solution to this problem as just offered
by Dagmar d'Surreal, will be better.

Have anyone else used othr package than tcpdump,
to monitor traffic of his/her net ?

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