Re: IPFilter 4.1

This is a discussion on Re: IPFilter 4.1 within the IPFilter forums, part of the System Security and Security Related category; > From: Hans Werner Strube <strube@physik3.gwdg.de> > > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle....


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Old 02-12-2004
Hans Werner Strube
 
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Default Re: IPFilter 4.1

> From: Hans Werner Strube <strube@physik3.gwdg.de>

> > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>

....
> > > (3) Compilation with the BPF stuff fails in Solaris 7, even if libpcap has
> > > been installed, because there is no <net/bpf.h> and not any DLT_ macros
> > > defined in the system header files (at least up to Solaris 8).

> >
> > Update your libpcap installation.

>
> The libpcap version is 0.8.1, afaik the most recent one. Also the problem
> is not libpcap as such but fil.c, lines 117-119:
> #if defined(IPFILTER_BPF) && defined(_KERNEL)
> # include <net/bpf.h>
> #endif
> There is simply no net/bpf.h anywhere, at least in Solaris 7 and 8.


libpcap-0.8.1 is too new; the net/bpf.h of former versions has been
replaced by pcap-bpf.h. Workaround (in the ip_fil4.1 top dir):
ln -s /usr/local/include/pcap-bpf.h net/bpf.h (will be removed by make clean!).
Then fil.c can be compiled (but does it work?).
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