[Info-vax] VMS PCAP Kit

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-12-04 10:03:28 +0000, El SysMan said:

>  Found in my archives vms-pcap kit. Is there someone who know author (-s)?
>  What is the status of the package?

We know little here about you or about your requirements or your goals 
or your interests or expectations here; this all as related to OpenVMS 
and this and your other questions.

In this case, we also don't know if there's any presumed origin of this 
"vms-pcap" kit in your archives, nor what you've tried to web search 
for, nor what you've examined within the kit, nor what you're 
presumably trying to do with pcap.

Terse questions can be surprisingly difficult to answer.

As for libpcap, OpenVMS TCP/IP Services V5.5 for OpenVMS V8.2 includes 
support for libpcap: 
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c04623350

Older OpenVMS releases do not have pcap support, and OpenVMS VAX long 
predates this particular libpcap work.

Haven't looked to see pcap support in the VSI IP fork of Process 
MultiNet, and which is the path forward for those of us running current 
OpenVMS releases.

There are other OpenVMS- and pcap-related packages discussed in other 
search hits, including some pcap-related work for simh.  DuckDuckGo 
finds some discussions.

But whether you have here some earlier release of the OpenVMS vendor 
pcap, or pcap acquired from somebody else, what you've researched, what 
you're trying to do here more generally, with what versions and 
architectures, etc?

We aren't your archivist, and we aren't mind readers, after all.

Is this question potentially related to your earlier tun/tap question?

Here's a little reading on the difficulties and the subtleties of 
asking questions, too: 
https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html#guide_begin — how to get 
to the answer you want, and quickly, and how not to get killfilled.



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