On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 04:21, Phil Knirsch wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > So, would it be completely inappropriate to nominate ethereal for > > removal from fc3 due to its spotty history of security problems? > > > > It seems like an excellent place to start thinking of packages that > > should be maintained, in fedora extras, by the people interested in > > using them, not by the central developers at red hat. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Well, maybe i as the package maintainer of ethereal here at Red Hat for > now a little over 3 years can give my $0.02 to this topic. > > Your request is certainly not inappropriate at all, i've often wondered > why we (and especially i) still maintain this package and we keep > shipping it in every released product. > > The thing is: It is a very very useful tool, even more so imho than > tcpdump. And especially for network debugging it is invaluable. > My main problems have been with it not handling over 2 gigabyte data capture files. Other than that a lot of the problems always seem to be libpcap and then some stupid parsing problem with ethereal stuff. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- Please, I have had too much of the stupid today. Please wait until -- tomorrow to say these things so my tolerance has refreshed.
