Patching tcpdump for IPv6 packets

Pelle Johansson peljo105@student.liu.se
Thu, 24 May 2001 01:42:16 +0200


On Wednesday, May 23, 2001, at 07:26 PM, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> Can someone please describe the process involved with patching tcpdump
> for processing IPv6 packets? I seem to recall that the program came
> preconfigured to manage all of the currently used Internet protocols,
> except IPv6. For clarification, this is running on a Slackware 7.2
> distribution.

libpcap and tcpdump with ipv6 support are available at:

ftp://ftp.inria.fr/network/ipv6/libpcap-0.4+.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/network/ipv6/tcpdump-3.4+.tar.gz

You'll need the first to compile the second (don't forget to do make 
install-incl in pcap).
--
Pelle Johansson
<peljo105@student.liu.se>