Bug 323425

Summary:	net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1: unusable with bonding devices activated
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Oliver Schmidt <oliver.schmidt>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2993250&group_id=53067&atid=469579
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch for correct bonding device handling Enhanced ebuild to implement the patch

Description Oliver Schmidt 2010-06-10 14:25:08 UTC

If you have the new stable libpcap 1.1.1 and kernel support for Bonding devices, libpcap will refuse to work as described in the upstream bug report (see URL).

Since this will be included in 1.1.2 first, I changed the ebuild for v1.1.1 a little bit to include the patch. Please find attached the modified ebuild + patch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install libpcap + tcpdump or jnettop
2. Active kernel support for Bonding (CONFIG_BONDING=y or M)
3. Try to execute jnettop or tcpdump 

Actual Results:  
Program crashes with "pcap_findalldevs: SIOCGIFFLAGS: bonding_masters: No such device"

Comment 1 Oliver Schmidt 2010-06-10 14:26:01 UTC

Created attachment 234855 [details, diff]
Patch for correct bonding device handling

Copied from http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2993250&group_id=53067&atid=469579

Comment 2 Oliver Schmidt 2010-06-10 14:27:35 UTC

Created attachment 234857 [details]
Enhanced ebuild to implement the patch

Modified the v1.1.1 ebuild in main portage tree

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-11 18:25:27 UTC

Thank you for report. This patch was added in libpcap-1.1.1-r1.