New release of tcpdrop for Solaris

Ceri Davies — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:09:00 +0000

Some years ago I ported tcpdrop to Solaris from the FreeBSD version. I did it very quickly as a proof of concept and never got round to quite getting the error handling right or worrying about Solaris 10 privileges.

After spending the required 14 seconds looking at the privileges stuff, it became pretty clear that the required privilege for using tcpdrop was PRIV_SYS_IP_CONFIG. This cannot be asserted in a non-global zone, so if you are one of the many people who have emailed me asking if it can work in a non-global zone, the answer is “no, it can’t”. Not only that, but there’s nothing I can do about it.

Also in this release, I fixed up the error messages so that they are at least correct :)

The next release will feature a manpage in man format, rather than the current mdoc one which can’t actually be formatted on Solaris. Anyone who knows an automated method to convert from mdoc to man, please shout.

Anyway, the new release is available for download, knock yourselves out.

Within Reason: New release of tcpdrop for Solaris

New release of tcpdrop for Solaris