Re: Fwd: About the HP-UX docs (README.hpux in the source distribution)

Stefan Puiu wrote:

> I've been trying to get Ethereal to work on HP-UX 11i and have found
> the instructions in the README.hpux a bit confusing. The file quotes
> from various posts off google groups, without trying to summarize the
> information, in a way that you know exactly for each HP-UX version
> what needs to be done. For example, it's not apparent from the file
> whether the
> 
> echo 'lanc_outbound_promisc_flag/W1' | /usr/bin/adb -w /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem
> 
> is needed on HP-UX 11i/11.00 or not. When I tried to run the command
> on 11i it failed, and by asking on the ITRC
> forums I found out that it wasn't actually needed for that release (the README
> only states you don't need any patches in order to capture packets on
> 11i).

Rick Jones mentioned that, so I updated the README.hpux to add a note

	According to Rick Jones, the global promiscuous switch also has to be 
turned on for HP-UX 11.00, but not for 11i - and, in fact, the switch 
doesn't even exist on 11i.

> The only problem I've seen on 11i is that if you have another
> app that uses DLPI to put an interface in promiscuous mode, you won't
> be able to use Ethereal.

I'll ask Rick Jones about that.

> Maybe we can organize the info systematically, and then provide the
> google groups links at the end of the README.

That might make sense; send us a patch if you do that.