Hello,

I noticed a bug in libpcap (1.8.1) with latest hipster and actual packages: 
"_eth_write(pcap): send: No such process".

Scenario: 
To compile the emulator Simh (https://github.com/simh/simh) with 
pcap-networking-support I installed libpcap in OI. Then I created a vnic 
(promiscous mode, no IP set) and a bridge over the pysical nic. After that I 
compiled simh-vax, created the ini-file for NetBSD/vax, attached the vnic in it 
and installed NetBSD. In NetBSD when network was configured I tried to ssh from 
it to another host. Then the following error occured: "_eth_write(pcap): send: 
No such process".

I tested Simh also with OpenVMS/VAX and known working TCPIP-stack: booting up 
OpenVMS, login per telnet from another host to OpenVMS and executing "SHOW 
SYSTEM" - same error as above. Additionally the telnet connection crashes.
The error occurs on bare-metal-installation as well as in virtual machines - 
and there is no difference whether simh is running in the global-zone or in a 
non-global-zone (with ip-type exclusive).

In contrast, the same scenario is working flawlessly with latest OmniOSCE, 
Tribblix and also with precompiled Simh/pcap via pkgsrc under OI. Therefore I 
think the problem is with the OI-distributed libpcap-package.

Problems with other usecases for pcap besides working with Simh are beyond my 
knowledge, but maybe someone else got some trouble with it?

Greetings,

Dirk

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