RE: [ethereal-users] Ethereal error

[GOMEZ Henri <hgomez@xxxxxxx>]

I have a Redhat box with 6.2 installed and so with
ucd-snmp 4.1.

I could build the intel RPM on this platform. If the binary
could run later on 6.x (ucd 3.5 - ucd 4.0), it will fixe
the problem...

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerald Combs [mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 8:58 PM
>To: Guy Harris
>Cc: Andy Kennedy; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx; hgomez@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal error
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Guy Harris wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:18:07AM +0100, Andy Kennedy wrote:
>> > Any ideas?
>> 
>> 	http://ethereal.zing.org/faq.html#q3.4
>> 
>> You'll either have to build from source or install UCD SNMP 4.1.2 or
>> later (with the same shared library version number as the
>> not-binary-compatible-with-earlier-Red-Hat-releases libsnmp 
>that comes
>> with RH 6.2).
>
>As an experiment, I built Ethereal on a stock RH 6.2 system, then
>downgraded the SNMP package to the version that comes with RH 6.1.
>Ethereal ran without a hitch, so executables built with the 
>newer library
>would appear to be backward compatible.
>
>An RPM built against the newer library can be found at
>http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald/ethereal-0.8.9-2.i386.rpm .  
>Andy, if you
>haven't already upgraded your SNMP libraries, could you try the new RPM
>and let me know if it works?  If it does, and if Henri doesn't have any
>objections, I'd like to move it to the RPM distribution directory.
>