CentOS Linux: pyrit: pckttools.py:418: UserWarning: Failed to compile BPF-filter
Pyrit was recently upgraded on a server that I use and when I logged in to run it manually from the CLI I noticed an error. The error, which is explained in more detail below, complains that the libpcap is to old. The server that this pyrit installation is installed on is CentOS 5.4. CentOS 5.X only provides libpcap version 0.9.4-14 as the latest available libpcap version in the yum repositories. At first I searched for a newer libpcap in third party repos though I was unsuccessful so I upgraded libpcap using the source. Below is more information regarding the error and how it was resolved.