Bug 323425 – net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1: unusable with bonding devices activated

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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) 2010-06-11 18:25:27 UTC]

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