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  HREF="node3.html#SECTION00032000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> What information should I provide when I report a bug?</A>
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  HREF="node3.html#SECTION00034000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> I've written a patch for tcpreplay, how can I submit it?</A>
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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Bugs, Feature Requests, and Patches</A>
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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Where can I get help, report bugs or contact the developers?</A>
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The best place to get help or report a bug is the Tcpreplay-Users
mailing list: 
<BR>
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users

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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> What information should I provide when I report a bug?</A>
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One of the most frustrating things for any developer trying to help
a user with a problem is not enough information. Please be sure to
include <SPAN  CLASS="textit">at minimum</SPAN> the following information, however any additional
information you feel may be helpful will be appreciated.

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<LI>Version information (output of -V)
</LI>
<LI>Command line used (options and arguments)
</LI>
<LI>Platform (Red Hat Linux 9 on Intel, Solaris 7 on SPARC, etc)
</LI>
<LI>Error message (if available) and/or description of problem
</LI>
<LI>If possible, attach the pcap file used (compressed with bzip2 or gzip
preferred)
</LI>
<LI>The core dump or backtrace if available
</LI>
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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> I have a feature request, what should I do?</A>
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Let us know! Many of the features exist today because users like you
asked for them. To make a feature request, you can either email the
tcpreplay-users mailing list (see above) or fill out the feature request
form on the tcpreplay SourceForge website.

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<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> I've written a patch for tcpreplay, how can I submit it?</A>
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I'm always willing to include new features or bug fixes submitted
by users. You may email me directly or the tcpreplay-users mailing
list. Please <SPAN  CLASS="textit">do not</SPAN> use the Patch Tracker on the tcpreplay
SourceForge web site. But before you start working on adding a feature
or fixing a bug in tcpreplay, please make sure you checkout the latest
source code from the Subversion repository. Patches against released
versions are almost surely not going to apply cleanly if at all.

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<LI>Be aware that submitting a patch, <SPAN  CLASS="textit">you are assigning your copyright
to me.</SPAN> If this is not acceptable to you, then <SPAN  CLASS="textit">do not</SPAN> send
me the patch! I have people assign their copyright to me to help prevent
licensing issues that may crop up in the future.
</LI>
<LI>Please provide a description of what your patch does!
</LI>
<LI>Comment your code! I won't use code I can't understand.
</LI>
<LI>Make sure you are patching a branch that is still being maintained.
Generally that means that most recent stable and development branches
(2.0 and 3.0 at the time of this writing).
</LI>
<LI>Make sure you are patching against the most recent release for that
branch.
</LI>
<LI>Please submit your patch in the unified diff format so I can better
understand what you're changing.
</LI>
<LI>Please provide any relevant personal information you'd like listed
in the CREDITS file.
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Please note that while I'm always interested in patches, I may rewrite
some or all of your submission to maintain a consistent coding style.

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