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diff --git a/doc/mergecap.pod b/doc/mergecap.pod index b805d32b9b..70e009a303 100644 --- a/doc/mergecap.pod +++ b/doc/mergecap.pod @@ -27,12 +27,13 @@ B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project, the output in B<IPLog> format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, B<pppd logs> (pppdump format), the output -from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, and the text output from the -B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility. There is no need to tell B<Mergecap> what -type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. -B<Mergecap> is also capable of reading any of these file formats if they -are compressed using gzip. B<Mergecap> recognizes this directly from the -file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this purpose. +from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, the text output from the B<DBS +Etherwatch> VMS utility, and traffic capture files from Visual Networks' +software. There is no need to tell B<Mergecap> what type of file you +are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Mergecap> is +also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed +using gzip. B<Mergecap> recognizes this directly from the file; the +'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose. By default, it writes the capture file in B<libpcap> format, and writes all of the packets in both input capture files to the output file. The @@ -41,8 +42,9 @@ capture file; it can write the file in B<libpcap> format (standard B<libpcap> format, a modified format used by some patched versions of B<libpcap>, the format used by Red Hat Linux 6.1, or the format used by SuSE Linux 6.3), B<snoop> format, uncompressed B<Sniffer> format, -Microsoft B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, and the format used by -Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer> software. +Microsoft B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, the format used by +Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer> software, and the format used +by Visual Networks' software. Packets from the input files are merged in chronological order based on each frame's timestamp, unless the B<-a> flag is specified. B<Mergecap> |