> > So the idea I'm proposing is not to "rip snoop out" but to change the > > location and the home of its source code so that it is no longer > > considered an integral part of Solaris like it is now. It becomes just > > another tool for sniffing packets, alongside tcpdump and wireshark, that > > we bring in from the outside. > > I personally don't see the benefit in doing that. Snoop still needs to > be maintained in previous Solaris versions (at least for high-priority > bug fixes), and the process for integrating such changes involves > integrating changes to the current release under development. Moving > consolidations increases the cost associated with integrating such fixes > (IMO) without much benefit. > > I also think that we have much bigger problems to solve in making sure > that Wireshark and tcpdump can actually replace snoop eventually. Let's > think about the engineering problems associated with that. Snoop can > sit in ON just as well as it can sit on sourceforge, I personally don't > see the point in moving it.
Agreed on all counts. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
