[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-05-19 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 12, 2024, at 6:49 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > Is there any reason not to require libpcap 1.0 or later? If there is, is > there any reason not to require libpcap 0.7 or later? OK, support removed, in the main branch. for libpcaps with only pre-1.0 APIs. The 4.99 branch still supports

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-05-05 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On 25/04/2024 12:25, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:18:47 -0700 > Guy Harris wrote: > >> On Apr 19, 2024, at 5:49 AM, Denis Ovsienko >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:49:05 -0700 >>> Guy Harris wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> Since tcpdump is the

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-04-25 Thread Denis Ovsienko
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:18:47 -0700 Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 19, 2024, at 5:49 AM, Denis Ovsienko > wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:49:05 -0700 > > Guy Harris wrote: > > ... > > > Since tcpdump is the reference implementation of a program that uses > > libpcap, it may be a good

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-04-19 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 19, 2024, at 5:49 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:49:05 -0700 > Guy Harris wrote: ... > Since tcpdump is the reference implementation of a program that uses > libpcap, it may be a good occasion to improve the solution space such > that other software can copy

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-04-19 Thread Denis Ovsienko
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:49:05 -0700 Guy Harris wrote: > A while ago, tcpdump and its configuration script were modified - > mainly by Bill Fenner, as I remember - so that it didn't require a > contemporary version of libpcap, and could be built with older > versions of libpcap. > > The intent,

[tcpdump-workers] Re: Dropping support in tcpdump for older versions of libpcap?

2024-04-14 Thread Michael Richardson
Guy Harris wrote: > A while ago, tcpdump and its configuration script were modified - > mainly by Bill Fenner, as I remember - so that it didn't require a > contemporary version of libpcap, and could be built with older versions > of libpcap. For instance, I think, the FreeBSD