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   1 (1) AIX 4.x's version of BPF is undocumented and somewhat unstandard; the
   2     current BPF support code includes changes that should work around
   3     that, but, lacking an AIX machine on which to compile it, we don't
   4     know whether the BPF support for AIX will compile.
   5
   6     If it doesn't, or if the workarounds fail to make it work correctly,
   7     you should send to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org a detailed bug report
   8     (if the compile fails, send us the compile error messages; if it
   9     compiles but fails to work correctly, send us as detailed as
  10     possible a description of the symptoms, including indications of the
  11     network link-layer type being wrong or time stamps being wrong).
  12
  13     If you fix the problems yourself, please send to patches@tcpdump.org
  14     a patch, so we can incorporate them into the next release.
  15
  16     If you don't fix the problems yourself, you can, as a workaround,
  17     make libpcap use DLPI instead of BPF.
  18
  19     This can be done by specifying the flag:
  20
  21        --with-pcap=dlpi
  22
  23     to the "configure" script for libpcap.
  24
  25 (2) Also, it is a good idea to have the latest version of the DLPI
  26     driver on your system, since certain versions may be buggy and
  27     cause your AIX system to crash.  DLPI is included in the
  28     fileset bos.rte.tty.  I found that the DLPI driver that came with
  29     AIX 4.3.2 was buggy, and had to upgrade to bos.rte.tty 4.3.2.4:
  30
  31     lslpp -l bos.rte.tty
  32
  33     bos.rte.tty     4.3.2.4  COMMITTED  Base TTY Support and Commands
  34
  35     Updates for AIX filesets can be obtained from:
  36     ftp://service.software.ibm.com/aix/fixes/
  37
  38     These updates can be installed with the smit program.
  39
  40 (3) After compiling libpcap, you need to make sure that the DLPI driver
  41     is loaded.  Type:
  42
  43     strload -q -d dlpi
  44
  45     If the result is:
  46     dlpi: yes
  47
  48     then the DLPI driver is loaded correctly.
  49
  50     If it is:
  51     dlpi: no
  52
  53     Then you need to type:
  54     strload -f /etc/dlpi.conf
  55
  56     Check again with strload -q -d dlpi that the dlpi driver is loaded.
  57
  58     Alternatively, you can uncomment the lines for DLPI in
  59     /etc/pse.conf and reboot the machine; this way DLPI will always
  60     be loaded when you boot your system.