From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2005-04-11T18:39:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of libpcap

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:15:14 +0900, Ghislain Mary wrote:

> So I was wondering if you know of an other library to handle pcap files 
> in ruby or if someone is working on a newer version for this library. If 
> not, I could try to update it to handle the last version of libpcap.

I've used that library and linked against libpcap 0.8.3. I don't think the
libpcap API has changed much.

The only change I made was to correct a run-time warning to do with symbols. 
See patch below.


diff -ur orig/pcap/Pcap.c pcap/Pcap.c
--- orig/pcap/Pcap.c    Sun Aug 13 06:56:31 2000
+++ pcap/Pcap.c Tue Dec  9 02:08:19 2003
@@ -782,9 +782,9 @@
     /* define class PcapStat */
     cPcapStat = rb_funcall(rb_cStruct, rb_intern("new"), 4,
                           Qnil,
-                          INT2NUM(rb_intern("recv")),
-                          INT2NUM(rb_intern("drop")),
-                          INT2NUM(rb_intern("ifdrop")));
+                          ID2SYM(rb_intern("recv")),
+                          ID2SYM(rb_intern("drop")),
+                          ID2SYM(rb_intern("ifdrop")));
     rb_define_const(mPcap, "Stat", cPcapStat);
 
     /* define exception classes */