From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RgIg8-0005f2-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:18:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93E9E21C03D; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD1721C0B8 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32ED1B407D for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:16:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.276 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.276 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.312, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.288, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2BdbkE_PVBnc for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1D91B401F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RgIeY-0007Qh-9j for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:16:26 +0100 Received: from p5086caf7.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.134.202.247]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:16:26 +0100 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by p5086caf7.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:16:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Holger Hoffstaette" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Packet sniffing broken recently? Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:09:58 +0100 Organization: The Fists of the White Lotus Message-ID: References: <201112291009.47532.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5086caf7.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Pan/0.13.91 (Before we let euphoria convince us we are free) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: dce40fc5-ec7b-423a-b077-c31f52738026 X-Archives-Hash: b856d1210ead724f4ba7bc8716badfbb On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:29:51 -0800, walt wrote: > This change appears to be somewhere in userland, though, not in the ker= nel > per se. I copied the kernel .config file from my working amd64 machine= to > the 'broken' ~amd64 machine and recompiled the kernel. >=20 > No improvement. I had to enable the nfnetlink module to make packet > sniffing work again. I suppose one of the networking packages changed = in > a recent ~arch update. Yup, this was libpcap moving to 1.2 recently. You can get the old behaviour back by downgrading to 1.1.x, though for me 1.2 also worked after building all the netfilter modules (default settings) and enabling linbl for libpcap. -h