Bug 251348 – net-analyzer/darkstat not working with OpenVPN tun interfaces

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2008-12-17 19:19:01 UTC]

When you launch darkstat -i tun0, you will see an error: unknown linktype 12

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2008-12-17 19:26:01 UTC]

Created attachment 175632 [details, diff]
Adds support for openvpn tun interfaces to darkstat

[Comment 2 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2008-12-17 19:27:02 UTC]

Created attachment 175634 [details, diff]
Ebuild, using patch posted before

[Comment 3 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2008-12-17 19:27:58 UTC]

I've wrote patch, fixing this problem.

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2008-12-18 13:27:20 UTC]

Reassigning to netmon herd.

Anton, did you send this patch upstream as well?

[Comment 5 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2008-12-18 15:21:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Reassigning to netmon herd.
> 
> Anton, did you send this patch upstream as well?
> 

Yes i did.
I've sent it to darkstat developer.

[Comment 6 Anton S. Ustyuzhanin 2009-01-04 16:51:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Reassigning to netmon herd.
> Anton, did you send this patch upstream as well?

well, darkstat developer has accepted my patch:

***EMAIL***
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:20:28AM +0600, Anton S. Ustyuzhanin wrote:
> Hi Emil!
> 
> I wrote little patch for your darkstat.
> This patch makes possible to gather statistic from
> OpenVPN TUN interfaces.
> It uses DLT_RAW datalink.
> 
> When i tried to run darkstat -i tun0, i saw error: unknown linktype 12,
> so i wrote this patch. May be you will accept it for future version of darkstat.

Looks good!  Thanks for doing this, it'll be in the next release!
For now it's in my private git repo:

$ git clone http://dmr.ath.cx/git/darkstat-wip

--Emil
***END OF EMAIL***

[Comment 7 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2009-01-05 20:07:07 UTC]

Thank you Anton. Updated darkstat version with this patch was added to the tree.