1 $Id: README.hpux,v 1.19 2002/06/29 04:38:31 guy Exp $
6 2 - Building GTK+/GLib with HP's C compiler
9 5 - HP-UX patches to fix packet capture problems
13 The Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX, at
15 http://hpux.connect.org.uk/
17 (with mirrors in various countries, listed on the Centre's home page;
18 you may want to choose a mirror closer to you) has ported versions, in
19 both source and binary form, for Ethereal, as well as for the libpcap,
20 GLib, GTK+, and zlib libraries that it uses.
22 The changes they've made appear largely to be compile option changes; if
23 you've downloaded the source to the latest version of Ethereal (the
24 version on the Centre's site may not necessarily be the latest version),
25 it should be able to compile, perhaps with those changes.
27 They appear to have used HP-UX's "cc" compiler, with the options "-Ae
28 -O"; there's a comment "Add -Dhpux_9 if building under 9.X". It may
31 They currently have libpcap 0.6.2; libpcap 0.6.2, and later versions,
32 include changes to properly open network devices when given the name
33 reported by the lanscan and ifconfig commands - earlier versions didn't
34 do this correctly. Therefore, we strongly suggest you use libpcap 0.6.2
35 or later, not libpcap 0.5.2.
37 2 - Building GTK+/GLib with HP's C compiler
39 By default, HP's C compiler doesn't support "long long int" to provide
40 64-bit integral data types on 32-bit platforms; the "-Ae" flag must be
41 supplied to enable extensions such as that.
43 Ethereal's "configure" script automatically includes that flag if it
44 detects that the native compiler is being used on HP-UX; however, the
45 configure scripts for GTK+ and GLib don't do so, which means that 64-bit
46 integer support won't be enabled.
48 This may prevent some parts of Ethereal from compiling; in order to get
49 64-bit integer support in GTK+/GLib, edit all the Makefiles for GTK+ and
50 GLib, as generated by the GTK+ and GLib "configure" scripts, to add
51 "-Ae" to all "CFLAGS = " definitions found in those Makefiles. (If a
52 Makefile lacks a "CFLAGS = " definition, there's no need to add a
53 definition that includes "-Ae".)
57 nettl is used on HP-UX to trace various streams based subsystems. Ethereal
58 can read nettl files containing IP frames (NS_LS_IP subsystem) and LAPB
59 frames (SX25L2 subsystem).
60 It has been tested with files generated on HP-UX 9.04 and 10.20.
62 Use the following commands to generate a trace (cf. nettl(1M)):
64 # IP capture. 0x30000000 means PDU in and PDU out :
65 nettl -tn 0x30000000 -e NS_LS_IP -f tracefile
66 # X25 capture. You must specify an interface :
67 nettl -tn 0x30000000 -e SX25l2 -d /dev/x25_0 -f tracefile
68 # stop capture. subsystem is NS_LS_IP or SX25L2 :
69 nettl -tf -e subsystem
71 One may be able to specify "-tn pduin pduout" rather than
72 "-tn 0x30000000"; the nettl man page for HP-UX 10.30 implies that it
77 If you want to use Ethereal to capture packets, you will have to install
78 libpcap; binary distributions are, as noted above, available from the
79 Software Porting And Archive Centre for HP-UX, as well as source code.
81 Versions of libpcap prior to 0.6 didn't handle HP-UX as well as 0.6 and
82 later versions do. You should install the latest version.
84 The source code is also available from the official home of libpcap and
87 http://www.tcpdump.org/
89 if you want a version later than the version available from the Software
90 Porting And Archive Centre; however, the versions available from
91 tcpdump.org might not, for example, include support for building libpcap
94 5 - HP-UX patches to fix packet capture problems
96 Note that packet-capture programs such as Ethereal/Tethereal or tcpdump
97 may, on HP-UX, not be able to see packets sent from the machine on which
98 they're running. Some articles on groups.google.com discussing this
101 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=82ld3v%2480i%241%40mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
105 Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux
106 Subject: Re: Did someone made tcpdump working on 10.20 ?
108 From: Lutz Jaenicke <jaenicke@emserv1.ee.TU-Berlin.DE>
110 In article <82ks5i$5vc$1@news1.dti.ne.jp>, mtsat <mtsat@iris.dti.ne.jp>
114 >I downloaded and compiled tcpdump3.4 a couple of week ago. I tried to use
115 >it, but I can only see incoming data, never outgoing.
116 >Someone (raj) explained me that a patch was missing, and that this patch
117 >must me "patched" (poked) in order to see outbound data in promiscuous mode.
118 >Many things to do .... So the question is : did someone has already this
119 >"ready to use" PHNE_**** patch ?
122 1. You do need a late "LAN products cumulative patch" (e.g. PHNE_18173
125 echo 'lanc_outbound_promisc_flag/W1' | /usr/bin/adb -w /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
126 You can insert this e.g. into /sbin/init.d/lan
133 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=88cf4t%24p03%241%40web1.cup.hp.com
137 Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux
138 Subject: Re: tcpdump only shows incoming packets
140 From: Rick Jones <foo@bar.baz.invalid>
142 Harald Skotnes <harald@cc.uit.no> wrote:
143 > I am running HPUX 11.0 on a C200 hanging on a 100Mb switch. I have
144 > compiled libpcap-0.4 an tcpdump-3.4 and it seems to work. But at a
145 > closer look I only get to see the incoming packets not the
146 > outgoing. I have tried tcpflow-0.12 which also uses libpcap and the
147 > same thing happens. Could someone please give me a hint on how to
150 Search/Read the archives ?-)
152 What you are seeing is expected, un-patched, behaviour for an HP-UX
153 system. On 11.00, you need to install the latest lancommon/DLPI
154 patches, and then the latest driver patch for the interface(s) in use.
155 At that point, a miracle happens and you should start seeing outbound
158 [That article also mentions the patch that appears below.]
162 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=38AA973E.96BE7DF7%40cc.uit.no
166 Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux
167 Subject: Re: tcpdump only shows incoming packets
169 From: Harald Skotnes <harald@cc.uit.no>
175 > What you are seeing is expected, un-patched, behaviour for an HP-UX
176 > system. On 11.00, you need to install the latest lancommon/DLPI
177 > patches, and then the latest driver patch for the interface(s) in
178 > use. At that point, a miracle happens and you should start seeing
181 Thanks a lot. I have this problem on several machines running HPUX
182 10.20 and 11.00. The machines where patched up before y2k so did not
183 know what to think. Anyway I have now installed PHNE_19766,
184 PHNE_19826, PHNE_20008, PHNE_20735 on the C200 and now I can see the
185 outbound traffic too. Thanks again.
187 (although those patches may not be the ones to install - there may be
190 And another message to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org, from Rick Jones:
192 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:59:55 -0700
194 To: tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org
195 Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] I Can't Capture the Outbound Traffic
199 http://itrc.hp.com/ would be one place to start in a search for the most
200 up-to-date patches for DLPI and the lan driver(s) used on your system (I
201 cannot guess because 9000/800 is too generic - one hs to use the "model"
202 command these days and/or an ioscan command (see manpage) to guess what
203 the drivers (btlan[3456], gelan, etc) might be involved in addition to
206 Another option is to upgrade to 11i as outbound promiscuous mode support
207 is there in the base OS, no patches required.
211 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7d6gvn%24b3%241%40ocean.cup.hp.com
213 indicates that you need to install the optional STREAMS product to do
214 captures on HP-UX 9.x:
216 Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hpux
217 Subject: Re: tcpdump HP/UX 9.x
219 From: Rick Jones <foo@bar.baz>
221 Dave Barr (barr@cis.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
222 : Has anyone ported tcpdump (or something similar) to HP/UX 9.x?
224 I'm reasonably confident that any port of tcpdump to 9.X would require
225 the (then optional) STREAMS product. This would bring DLPI, which is
226 what one uses to access interfaces in promiscuous mode.
228 I'm not sure that HP even sells the 9.X STREAMS product any longer,
229 since HP-UX 9.X is off the pricelist (well, maybe 9.10 for the old 68K
232 Your best bet is to be up on 10.20 or better if that is at all
233 possible. If your hardware is supported by it, I'd go with HP-UX 11.
234 If you want to see the system's own outbound traffic, you'll never get
235 that functionality on 9.X, but it might happen at some point for 10.20
240 (as per other messages cited here, the ability to see the system's own
241 outbound traffic did happen).
243 Rick Jones reports that HP-UX 11i needs no patches for outbound
244 promiscuous mode support.
246 An additional note, from Jost Martin, for HP-UX 10.20:
248 Q: How do I get ethereral on HPUX to capture the _outgoing_ packets
250 A: You need to get PHNE_20892,PHNE_20725 and PHCO_10947 (or
251 newer, this is as of 4.4.00) and its dependencies. Then you can
252 enable the feature as descibed below:
254 Patch Name: PHNE_20892
255 Patch Description: s700 10.20 PCI 100Base-T cumulative patch
256 To trace the outbound packets, please do the following
257 to turn on a global promiscuous switch before running
258 the promiscuous applications like snoop or tcpdump:
260 adb -w /stand/vmunix /dev/mem
261 lanc_outbound_promisc_flag/W 1
262 (adb will echo the result showing that the flag has
265 (Thanks for this part to HP-support, Ratingen)
267 The attached hack does this and some security-related stuff
268 (thanks to hildeb@www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de (Ralf Hildebrandt) who
269 posted the security-part some time ago)
273 (Don't switch IP-forwarding off, if you need it !)
274 Install the hack as /sbin/init.d/hacl_ip_stack (adjust
275 permissions !) and make a sequencing-symlink
276 /sbin/rc2.d/S350hack_ip_stack pointing to this script.
277 Now all this is done on every reboot.
279 Here's the "hack_ip_stack" script:
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284 # nettune: hack kernel parms for safety
289 # /usr/contrib/bin fuer nettune auf Pfad
290 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/contrib/bin
300 print "Tune IP-Stack for security"
305 print "This action is not applicable"
317 print "USAGE: $0 {start_msg | stop_msg | start | stop}" >&2
327 # tcp-Sequence-Numbers nicht mehr inkrementieren sondern random
328 # Syn-Flood-Protection an
331 # Ausgehende Packets an ethereal/tcpdump etc.
333 /usr/contrib/bin/nettune -s tcp_random_seq 2 || exit $ERROR
334 /usr/contrib/bin/nettune -s hp_syn_protect 1 || exit $ERROR
335 /usr/contrib/bin/nettune -s ip_forwarding 0 || exit $ERROR
336 echo 'ip_block_source_routed/W1' | /usr/bin/adb -w /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem || exit $ERROR
337 echo 'lanc_outbound_promisc_flag/W 1' | adb -w /stand/vmunix /dev/mem || exit $ERROR
340 -----------------------------------Cut Here-------------------------------------