On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> wrote: > On 12/01/2015 04:48 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: >> >> On 01/12/2015 15:27, Panu Matilainen wrote: >>> >>> The problem with that (unless I'm missing something here) is that KNI >>> requires using out-of-tree kernel modules which makes it pretty much a >>> non-option for distros. >> >> >> It works fine with some distros. I do not think it should be an argument. > > > Its not a question of *working*, its that out-of-tree kernel modules are > considered unsupportable by the kernel people. So relying on KNI would make > the otherwise important and desirable tcpdump feature non-existent on at > least Fedora and RHEL where such modules are practically outright banned by > distro policies. > > - Panu -
+1 to that argument from an Ubuntu Point-of-View Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd