On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:33:28PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
>       1) the AIX BPF is very annoyingly non-standard (BIOCGDLT returns
>          SNMP ifType values rather than DLT_ values, and the time
>          stamps on packets are in seconds and nanoseconds rather than
>          seconds and microseconds) so you may get bizarre results if
>          you make libpcap use BPF (it'll think Ethernet devices are
>          Token Ring devices, and the time stamps will be bogus);

I've checked in code that, on AIX, *might* fix those problems - or might
cause "pcap-bpf.c" not to compile on AIX, or might not fix the problems.

That will be in 0.7 as well; it's not as if the code was any better when
it *did* compile, as it claimed that Ethernet devices were Token Ring
devices and returned the wrong time stamp, so it's not as if it's a
regression if it fails to compile (it may provoke people into reporting
the problem or sending in a fix, and will push them into using DLPI as a
workaround).

I've updated the "README.aix" file to reflect that.

The next CVS and 0.7 beta snapshots should have them.  Please try it
with both BPF *and* DLPI, so we can find out whether my recent changes
to both of them work.
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