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A number of folks where I work, as well as myself, have had problems installing NET::PcapUtils. The problem is that the 'loop' test never passes (or even progresses).
My observation is that this happens when we were installing over WiFi. It installs fine over a wired connection. To generalize this, I propose that the 'loop' test is watching the lowest Ethernet (1st non-lo) interface, without checking to see if it is active, And the WiFi interfaces lists after the Ethernet interfaces. Whether this is a libpcap, or PcapUtil, function at fault is not obvious.

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Re: Net::PcapUtils install stalls
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Oct 14, 2014 at 12:35 UTC

    Youch. The module has gone 15 years without a new release, and 7 years without a new bug report, and most testers are failing the module.

    Is there anything else that plays in this space?

    --MidLifeXis

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