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authorguy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000
committerguy <guy@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7>2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000
commit79f662dcd08f12017e6bc11228ebf97817414c2b (patch)
tree8e89acab04fdc2ccc4c0fc40bf2a876fa466d4fb /doc/dumpcap.pod
parent142c442365ac073eb818e4470a1e3cddf33429af (diff)
Have the minimum snapshot length be 1 byte, and have a snapshot length
of 0 mean 65535, similar to what tcpdump does. Fixes bug 2731. git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@27526 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
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@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ machine.
Set the default snapshot length to use when capturing live data.
No more than I<snaplen> bytes of each network packet will be read into
-memory, or saved to disk.
+memory, or saved to disk. A value of 0 specifies a snapshot length of
+65535, so that the full packet is captured; this is the default.
=item -v