On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Pascal Bleser wrote:

> dsniff is a dead horse. It requires libnet 1.0.x, which is deprecated 
> and not further supported. I almost managed to build dsniff by 
> statically linking against a libnet 1.0.2a that would have been included 
> in the package, but then again dsniff requires libnids. And libnids 
> doesn't build against libnet 1.0.x, only against libnet 1.1.x or 1.2.x
> 
> dsniff hasn't undergone any release or development effort since 2003 and 
> there is not much hope to have the author (or someone else) port it to 
> libnet 1.2.x, especially since the libnet >= 1.1.x API is very 
> different.
> 
> The only chance would be to use an also deprecated libnids, that uses 
> libnet 1.0.x as well. That's what I did in my dsniff package: it 
> includes libnids 1.16 and libnet 1.0.2a that are built and linked 
> statically by dsniff. It required quite some ugly hacks but.. it seems 
> to work. I didn't test the packaged runtime myself, please do that 
> yourself and submit the feedback (whether it works or not).

You might wan to have a look at the patches that are in 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dsniff/dsniff_2.4b1-12.diff.gz

Especially the one starting with:

+## 02_libnet_1.1.dpatch
[...]
+## DP: Use libnet v1.1 instead of v1.0

;))


Regards
        Christoph

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