-$Id: README.aix,v 1.4 2000/10/08 17:16:29 gerald Exp $
+$Id$
+
+libpcap 0.7.1 and later appear to work on AIX when using AIX's native
+BPF; that appears to work better than DLPI does. Note that you may have
+to run AIX's tcpdump, as root, before configuring, building, and
+installing libpcap, in order to create the "/dev/bpf" devices and load
+the BPF driver.
+
+However, libpcap 0.7.1 doesn't work perfectly with AIX's BPF - it
+appears that AIX's BPF devices inform their user that packets were
+dropped since the last successful read by returning -1 and setting
+"errno" to EFAULT, which libpcap 0.7.1 treats as an error. The current
+CVS version of libpcap ignores EFAULT on AIX; it appears that this fixes
+the problem.
+
+Some earlier notes: the notes about libpcap may not apply, with libpcap
+0.7.1, but they're preserved here for historical reasons.
+
+The glib, gtk+, and Ethereal notes still apply.
After much work and toil, Craig Rodrigues was able to compile libpcap
and Ethereal on AIX 4.3.2. His odyssey is document in various e-mails
But basically, after I fixed up pcap-dlpi.c, I managed to get libpcap
working under AIX. This enabled me to successfully run Ethereal,
ie. all the packets on my Ethernet network correctly showed up
-as Ethernet and not Token Ring in the Ethereal screen.
+as Ethernet and not Token Ring in the Wireshark screen.
YAY!
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> > Any ideas why this causes trouble?
>
> Mismatches between the layouts of data structures as declared in the
-> "gtk/gtk*.h" files in the Ethereal source tree and the layouts as
+> "gtk/gtk*.h" files in the Wireshark source tree and the layouts as
> declared in the header files in the GTK+ source (either due to header
> file differences - although the header files appear to be identical to
> the GTK+ 1.2.6 ones - or due to compiler behavior differences)?
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