On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:40:32 +0100 Klemens Nanni <k...@openbsd.org>: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Solene Rapenne wrote: > > Is it working? > ChangeLog lists several fixes for crashes between 1.0 and 1.6, so our > version does not have those. > > > At leasts for lo(4), capturing only works if writing to a file, e.g. no > matter which options I try and/or which packets I produce on lo0, packit > never prints them: > > $ doas packit -m capture -i lo0 > [producing packets in another xterm, yet nothing is printed] > ^C > -| Packet Capture Statistics > |---------------------------------------------- > Received: 4 Dropped: 0 Processed: 0 > > Do the same with `-w dump' and `tcpdump -r dump' will print them. > > > Injecting IPv6 packets is not supported, fair enough. > But packit also fails to capture any IPv6 packets, e.g. > > $ doas packit -m capture -i trunk0 > > Shows nothing... enabling IPv4 and pinging something does make it print > those packets, so at least printing per se works. > > I don't consider this working. > > > I'm totally fine to remove old network daemons for security concerns > > or ports adding burden like deprecated dependencies, heavy patches > > requirements, runtime or compilation failures. > The very idea behind the new repository is to carry patches to ship > what I wouldn't call updates -- it's life support. > > > This program doesn't seem to be in one of those categories. > > If it doesn't add extra work I think we should keep it. > Sure, the path of least resistance is to keep building with "-fcommon". > Or wait for someone to update to the "new version" but even that is not > less work, it merely hides the work inside the repository instead of our > tree.
ok solene@ for removal
