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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:14:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: snaplen 
Message-ID:  <20011218171357.D65193-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C1FB837.E7B42F38@vortex.wa4phy.net>

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By default, I thing tcpdump's snap length is only 68 bytes.  Most packets
are bigger than this.  If you're capturing on ethernet, pass the argument
of -s 1518 to capture the entire frame.

Joe

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Sam Drinkard wrote:

> Was doing some snooping this afternoon on my internal net, and saw a
> couple of warnings about increasing snaplen from the NBT packets.. did a
> bit of reading and found that by passing the argument of  "s0" after the
> interface name will elminiate the warning that the snaplen is too
> short.  Since I'm not much into fixing code, I thought I'd mention it
> and let somebody that knows how to do it take a stab at it..
>
> Sam
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