Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:06:41 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snaplen Message-ID: <20011218230640.D1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1FB837.E7B42F38@vortex.wa4phy.net>; from sam@wa4phy.net on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:42:15PM -0500 References: <3C1FB837.E7B42F38@vortex.wa4phy.net>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:42 -0500, 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..
That's not the program's fault but OSI level 8. :) Did you
actually bother to read "man tcpdump" while searching for
"snaplen"? The second match (the one in "OPTIONS" after the
one in "SYNOPSIS" you can fly by) tells you quite clearly
what's going on.
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