Folks,
I was talking to Pavel  (from fastnetmon) and  he responded posively asked
the following

"Can you provide summary what's required from our side? "

what I have is as follows below,  i hae included Landry's  work on
supporting fastnetmon attached


is there anything else we can add to that as  upstream would like to see
fastnemon running on OpenBSD

Thanks

Tom Smyth

*Stuart Henderson *<stu@spacehopper.org> 20 May 2026 at 13:51

Reply-To: landry@openbsd.org, Tom Smyth <tom.smyth@wirelessconnect.eu>,
ports@openbsd.org
To: landry@openbsd.org
Cc: Tom Smyth <tom.smyth@wirelessconnect.eu>, ports@openbsd.org

> Le Wed, May 20, 2026 at 12:22:09AM +0100, Tom Smyth a écrit :
> > sorry folks
> >
> > for some reason I only ran sysupgrade on my fastnet mon box tonight (
from
> > 7.7 to 7.8)     so only seeing this thread now (that I searched for
> > fasnetmon on the ports list
> >
> > I think fastnetmon is an amazing piece of software  although running it
on
> > OpenBSD does require  a re-animation script to check if it is still
running
> > and restart the service...
> >

We have more of the libraries that they want in ports now (grpc, abseil,
capnproto etc), so it might not be too horrible. I might be able to take
a look at some point.

Still needs mongo-c-driver, it looks like our libbson port is actually
a mongo-c-driver port with bits disabled, so enabling those bits (and
probably renaming the port so it's a bit more obvious) would be a
good first step.



On Wed, 20 May 2026 at 08:17, Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org> wrote:

>
>
> here's what i had last year when the port was removed, and i think i
> quickly gave up when i saw that it wanted to build many bundled libs.
>
> i don't plan more work on it at all, but feel free to start from that.
>
> Landry
>

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