[Oisf-devel] PF_RING 5.1.0 and BPF filters

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Mon Nov 14 11:19:20 UTC 2011


On 14/11/11 10:38, Eric Leblond wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 10:25 +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
>> The latest Suricata git master doesn't build with PF_RING 5.1.0 (latest
>> "released" version) due to "pfring_remove_bpf_filter" being added later
>> in SVN release 4893 "BUG 144 fix. PF_RING BPF support".
>>
>> We could just require people to update to latest SVN of PF_RING, but
>> here's an extra check for configure.in (attached).
> 
> Seems a really good solution to the problem.
> 
> Could you provide a git-formatted patch ?
>  - commit patch
>  - git format-patch HEAD^..HEAD
>  - and then use git send-email on generated file
> 
> BR,

Hopefully this is right. I don't find git very easy to use; I'm not sure
Linus Torvalds checked what the word means in British slang, but it's
actually quite appropriate ;-)

My git doesn't seem to have send-email as an option.

Best Wishes,
Chris

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