[Iftop-users] mac os x 10.2.6 compile?

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:31:08 +0100


On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:50:50PM -0700, Siri Dhyan Singh wrote:
> Siri Dhyan Singh wrote:

> >I just applied the patches and it seems to be working fine.  I supply a 
> >n interface of en0 as its OS X and I'm off and running.
> 
> A little more background here.  Basically on OS X 10.2.6 (and other BSDs 
> I suspect) I'm pulling up a couple of pseudo devices used for tunneling 
> which are probably not appropriate as defaults for iftop.  Here's a 
> little patch.  My first code contribution to an open source project - a 
> historic moment ;-).
> 
> diff -u options.orig options.c
> --- options.orig        Mon Aug 25 15:30:26 2003
> +++ options.c   Mon Aug 25 15:33:32 2003
> @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
>  static char *bad_interface_names[] = {
>              "lo:",
>             "lo",
> +            "stf",     //pseudo-device 6to4 tunnel interface

  [ Tiny suggestion: better to use /* ... */ comments in C
    programs, since // is not universally supported yet. ]

> +            "gif",     //psuedo-device generic tunnel interface
>              "dummy",
>              "vmnet",
>              NULL        /* last entry must be NULL */

Noted. Many thanks.

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