Bug 1292056

Summary:	Use -Q instead of -P to set capture direction
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jaroslav Aster <jaster>
Component:	tcpdump	Assignee:	Martin Sehnoutka <msehnout>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jaroslav Aster <jaster>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Vladimír Slávik <vslavik>
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.4	CC:	msehnout, msekleta, thozza
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FastFix, Patch
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Fixed In Version:	tcpdump-4.5.1-6.el7	Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	The option to set capture direction for tcpdump changed from "-P" to "-Q" Previously, the tcpdump utility in Red Hat Enterprise Linux used the "-P" option to set the capture direction, while the upstream version used "-Q". The "-Q" option has been implemented and is now preferred. The "-P" option retains the previous function as an alias of "-Q", but displays a warning.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1292055	Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-08-01 12:13:36 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1380362

Description Jaroslav Aster 2015-12-16 11:05:55 UTC

The same issue on rhel-7. Tested on tcpdump-4.5.1-3.el7.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1292055 +++

Description of problem:

In tcpdump-4.0.0-5.20090921gitdf3cb4.2.el6 new option -P was introduced (bug 1099701), but upstream uses -Q option for the same thing, so there is difference between RHEL and upstream. RHEL should use the same option as upstream.

--- Additional comment from Jaroslav Aster on 2015-12-16 06:03:31 EST ---

I suggest to save backward compatibility and use -P as an alias for -Q and print some warning when -P is used.

Comment 5 Jaroslav Aster 2017-04-11 14:45:46 UTC

Hi Martin,

could you please confirm to me that setting -P/-Q is not supposed to work on aarch64? Other architectures work fine. Thanks.

tcpdump: nflog: pcap_setdirection() failed: Setting direction is not implemented on this platform

Comment 6 Martin Sehnoutka 2017-04-24 12:04:46 UTC

Yes, it is not supposed to work everywhere as stated here:
http://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/pcap_setdirection.3pcap.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 12:13:36 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1871