Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:20:31 +0200 From: Robert Klein <RoKlein@roklein.de> To: "Jamie Heckford" <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length Message-ID: <200205291820.31636.RoKlein@roklein.de> In-Reply-To: <002901c20729$7240fb30$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> References: <002901c20729$7240fb30$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD>
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On Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 17:56, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Im running samba and these messages appear when examining traffic > with > tcpdump: [packet data deleted] > WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length > > Is this something to be worried about and is it a FreeBSD or SAMBA > problem? That's nothing to be worried about. Tcpdump only snaps a certain amount of each packet (68 bytes per default, I believe). This is enough to get information concerning IP, ICMP, TCP and UDP, but may not be enough for other protocols. Use tcpdump with a greater snaplength, e.g. "tcpdump -s 200" instead of simply "tcpdump". See the man page for tcpdump(1) for more information. Regards, Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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