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On 06/13/12 05:11, v_2e@×××.net wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> During a recent upgrade, I noticed that 'net-analyzer/iftop' now |
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> needs 'net-libs/libpcap' with the 'ipv6' USE flag. It seemed strange to |
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> me and I decided to ask here. Does 'iftop' really needs IPv6? Can't it |
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> be optional? |
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It's an upstream bug, if they consider it one. From the Gentoo ChangeLog: |
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30 May 2012; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> iftop- |
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1.0_pre2.ebuild: |
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Non-maintainer commit: We need libpcap with ipv6 support or else iftop |
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doesn't work at all. |
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I downloaded the latest iftop tarball and, |
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1 There is no ./configure option for ipv6 |
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2 Compiling it against libpcap without ipv6 support works, but it |
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crashes at runtime: |
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$ sudo ./iftop |
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... |
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set_filter_code: ip6 not supported |
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