tcpdump SMB patch

[Anand Kumria]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:

> Tridge (or anyone),

A week or two ago I remember reading in Tridge's diary that he was
preping the patches for tcpdump.org; I'd assume they are official
(btw: the diary looks bizarre, as does rustys'. There is some link
problem)

> Looking at the files included in the tcpdump tarball from 
> http://www.tcpdump.org, it appears that the smb extensions 
> have been absorbed into the main distribution.  Rather 
> than assume this is official, what is the relationship 
> between the tcpdump-smb patch on samba.org and the 
> distribution from tcpdump.org?

The patches at tcpdump.org were submitted by tridge.

> In other words, should be be pointing people to 
> tcpdump.org for the sniffer?  or still get it from samba.org?

Once the 3.5 release is out I'd say so ... but until then not.

Anand