[Iftop-users] iftop with IPv6 support available for testing

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

Thanks to the work of Mats Erik Andersson, I'm pleased to announce the
availability of IPv6 supporting iftop packages for Debian (will most
likely also work for all derivatives)!


Mats patch allowing IPv6 looks sane and fixes also some other bugs (e.g.
a segfault when using console parameters mutliple times).  His complete
patch is available at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427852#30 for review.

It addresses the following issues:
  * Add IPv6 support http://bugs.debian.org/427852
  * Fix segfault when using the same command line argument multiple time
    (See http://bugs.debian.org/425488)
  * Fix typo in display (see http://bugs.debian.org/477928)
  * Use better hash Algorithm in address pairs
    (http://bugs.debian.org/595169)
  * Fix link-level address detection on kfreebsd-* (see
    http://bugs.debian.org/598367)


Packages for testing are available in Debian's experimental branch
(should also work on Debian sid/squeeze) and at
http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/tmp/iftop-ipv6-backports/ (for Debian
5.0 "Lenny").


Many thanks for your work so far, Mats!


Best regards,
  Alexander