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

Paul Warren pdw at ex-parrot.com
Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:46:08 +0100


Excellent!

Thanks to Mats for the hard work, and to Alexander for bringing these to 
the list.

I'll get these rolled into CVS.

Paul

On 15/10/2010 12:21, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> 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
>
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