G'Day Folks,

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:59:34AM -0400, Carl Ma wrote:
> The Network provider is only availabe on opensolaris, not SPARC based
> solaris 10. According to the comment in tcpsnoop.d, new solaris 10 release
> changes the fbt provider, which is not back compatible.

Yes, the network providers will ultimately provide tcpsnoop/tcptop style
capability (either directly supported, or indirectly - as a step-up from fbt);
however there is still some work to go.

It looks like I need to update tcpsnoop/tcptop again until these exist in a
stable manner based on the network providers.

> It is a pity that tcpsnoop is not supported in  new solaris release. Is
> there anyone providing the guide line that what kind of changes in fbt could
> make it working?

tcpsnoop/tcptop were never supported by Sun anyway, I wrote them as a
customer and made them available as CDDL'd opensource, and continue to
maintain them and the DTraceToolkit in my spare time.  I'm sorry they keep
breaking - when I moved to the US I left behind my test servers, and haven't
had anything to run Sol 10u5 ... until recently - I installed Sol 10u5 on a
home PC last week - now I can see and fix this issue.

A couple of people had sent me fixes for tcpsnoop/tcptop (which is
appreciated since I have limited time and servers to develop them on) but
those fixes looked equal to tcpsnoop_snv, which is already available.

I'm wondering if it would be more useful for me to write a guide to how
tcpsnoop was written, which people could then follow to not only update the
scripts for Solaris 10 x86 and sparc, but also port the scripts to MacOS X
and other OSes with DTrace...

Brendan

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Brendan
[CA, USA]
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