Version: Next
Building TCPDump for Netkit
Netkit-JH requires a vanilla version of TCPDump (rather than the TCPDump from Debian's repositories) as Debian's TCPDump patches do not allow us to do this:
Instead, we would have to do:
or
To build TCPDump, firstly start a Netkit machine with a tap interface (this will require root privileges) and 512MB of RAM.
Once the VM has started, run the commands below to configure DNS, download build packages and compile TCPDump.
Now move the tcpdump
and tcpdump.1
files out of your home directory into the applicable directories inside netkit-jh-build/fs/filesystem-tweaks
.