No ipv6 traffic shown in iptraf

[Koos van den Hout]

Binary package hint: iptraf

With the growth in ipv6 traffic it becomes necessary to be able to 'see' this when viewing network traffic with programs such as iptraf. At the moment it is only shown as 'Non-IP traffic'.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release: 8.04

iptraf:
  Installed: 3.0.0-6
  Candidate: 3.0.0-6
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.0-6 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 14 14:12:13 2009
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4
 gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-1ubuntu4
 libncurses5 5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2
 libc6 2.7-10ubuntu5
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: iptraf 3.0.0-6
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: iptraf
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Binoy Babu (royale1223)]

Last version of iptraf was released on September 19, 2005. I don't think anybody is maintains it. Just another dead project.

[Koos van den Hout (koos-kzdoos)]

Quoting Binoy Babu who wrote on Tue 2012-11-06 at 05:44:

> Last version of iptraf was released on September 19, 2005. I don't think
> anybody is maintains it. Just another dead project.

I managed to build a working iptraf with ipv6 support using the patches
from the url below and one extra change

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42508

which is for me a working solution but I don't know if ubuntu is willing to
use it.

                                            Koos van den Hout

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[Yucong Sun (sunyucong)]

that sounds good work, ubuntu just port whatever get admited to debian , so
you may want to submit to debian first.

I was hoping to get sometime to get this useful tool working as well.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Koos van den Hout <email address hidden>wrote:

> Quoting Binoy Babu who wrote on Tue 2012-11-06 at 05:44:
>
> > Last version of iptraf was released on September 19, 2005. I don't think
> > anybody is maintains it. Just another dead project.
>
> I managed to build a working iptraf with ipv6 support using the patches
> from the url below and one extra change
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42508
>
> which is for me a working solution but I don't know if ubuntu is willing to
> use it.
>
> Koos van den Hout
>
> --
> The Virtual Bookcase, the site about books, book | Koos van den Hout
> news and reviews http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ | http://idefix.net/
> PGP keyid DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 | IPv6 enabled!
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to iptraf
> in Ubuntu.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451224
>
> Title:
> No ipv6 traffic shown in iptraf
>
> Status in “iptraf” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “iptraf” package in Debian:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: iptraf
>
> With the growth in ipv6 traffic it becomes necessary to be able to
> 'see' this when viewing network traffic with programs such as iptraf.
> At the moment it is only shown as 'Non-IP traffic'.
>
> lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
> Release: 8.04
>
> iptraf:
> Installed: 3.0.0-6
> Candidate: 3.0.0-6
> Version table:
> *** 3.0.0-6 0
> 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Oct 14 14:12:13 2009
> Dependencies:
> libgcc1 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4
> gcc-4.2-base 4.2.4-1ubuntu4
> libncurses5 5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2
> libc6 2.7-10ubuntu5
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Package: iptraf 3.0.0-6
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: iptraf
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686
>
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>

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

iptraf has been removed from Debian without fixing this bug. Can any affected users try iptraf-ng?

Thanks,
Nish

[Koos van den Hout (koos-kzdoos)]

> iptraf has been removed from Debian without fixing this bug. Can any
> affected users try iptraf-ng?

iptraf-ng is showing the IPv6 traffic fine, so this would be a good
solution.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

With the removal of iptraf from Debian unstable it's also been dropped from Zesty. Closing all iptraf bugs in Ubuntu as wontfix. As such, fixes in earlier releases are unlikely and it's best to move on to iptraf-ng.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

It would be great to see if iptraf-ng is affected by this problem as well. If so, "also affects distribution/package" button to iptraf-ng to the list of affected packages in Ubuntu. Thank you for your testing.