On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:40:32 +0100
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 04:05:26PM +0100, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> > Is it working?
> ChangeLog lists several fixes for crashes between 1.0 and 1.6, so our
> version does not have those.
>
>
> At leasts for lo(4), capturing only works if writing to a file, e.g. no
> matter which options I try and/or which packets I produce on lo0, packit
> never prints them:
>
> $ doas packit -m capture -i lo0
> [producing packets in another xterm, yet nothing is printed]
> ^C
> -| Packet Capture Statistics |----------------------------------------------
> Received: 4 Dropped: 0 Processed: 0
>
> Do the same with `-w dump' and `tcpdump -r dump' will print them.
>
>
> Injecting IPv6 packets is not supported, fair enough.
> But packit also fails to capture any IPv6 packets, e.g.
>
> $ doas packit -m capture -i trunk0
>
> Shows nothing... enabling IPv4 and pinging something does make it print
> those packets, so at least printing per se works.
>
> I don't consider this working.
>
> > I'm totally fine to remove old network daemons for security concerns
> > or ports adding burden like deprecated dependencies, heavy patches
> > requirements, runtime or compilation failures.
> The very idea behind the new repository is to carry patches to ship
> what I wouldn't call updates -- it's life support.
>
> > This program doesn't seem to be in one of those categories.
> > If it doesn't add extra work I think we should keep it.
> Sure, the path of least resistance is to keep building with "-fcommon".
> Or wait for someone to update to the "new version" but even that is not
> less work, it merely hides the work inside the repository instead of our
> tree.
ok solene@ for removal
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