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| author | Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com> | 2015-09-17 11:13:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com> | 2015-09-17 11:24:07 +0200 |
| commit | d128eefdb3aefd55d21f5f065e2dce43e4313998 (patch) | |
| tree | 9daef6cbe49b9e23ae191b246dd1c536d4a0d073 /tcpdump.1.in | |
| parent | f4dd1595652eed7deb50ac52331d01a21a6d45d2 (diff) | |
| download | tcpdump-d128eefdb3aefd55d21f5f065e2dce43e4313998.tar.gz | |
Fix the maximum snaplen value in the man page
Diffstat (limited to 'tcpdump.1.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | tcpdump.1.in | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tcpdump.1.in b/tcpdump.1.in index 3f16d89d..0d93d7b8 100644 --- a/tcpdump.1.in +++ b/tcpdump.1.in @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ Print absolute, rather than relative, TCP sequence numbers. .BI \-\-snapshot\-length= snaplen .PD Snarf \fIsnaplen\fP bytes of data from each packet rather than the -default of 65535 bytes. +default of 262144 bytes. Packets truncated because of a limited snapshot are indicated in the output with ``[|\fIproto\fP]'', where \fIproto\fP is the name of the protocol level at which the truncation has occurred. @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ lost. You should limit \fIsnaplen\fP to the smallest number that will capture the protocol information you're interested in. Setting -\fIsnaplen\fP to 0 sets it to the default of 65535, +\fIsnaplen\fP to 0 sets it to the default of 262144, for backwards compatibility with recent older versions of .IR tcpdump . .TP |