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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-05-07 02:00:46 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2010-05-07 02:00:46 +0000 |
commit | 9dde366f2f4758dc9638b239d8ed936a2959042c (patch) | |
tree | be95d3282a50afaf3278ec85dfd016d102ca61a2 /doc/dumpcap.pod | |
parent | 1ec010581735853ee92a197a51e74dea976bf12b (diff) |
-B is no longer Windows-only.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=32707
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dumpcap.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/dumpcap.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod index 6fe5836978..f08bd66488 100644 --- a/doc/dumpcap.pod +++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dumpcap - Dump network traffic B<dumpcap> S<[ B<-a> E<lt>capture autostop conditionE<gt> ] ...> S<[ B<-b> E<lt>capture ring buffer optionE<gt>] ...> -S<[ B<-B> E<lt>capture buffer size (Win32 only)E<gt> ] > +S<[ B<-B> E<lt>capture buffer sizeE<gt> ] > S<[ B<-c> E<lt>capture packet countE<gt> ]> S<[ B<-D> ]> S<[ B<-f> E<lt>capture filterE<gt> ]> @@ -98,11 +98,16 @@ B<duration> or B<filesize> to be specified to control when to go to the next file. It should be noted that each B<-b> parameter takes exactly one criterion; to specify two criterion, each must be preceded by the B<-b> option. -=item -B E<lt>capture buffer size (Win32 only)E<gt> +=item -B E<lt>capture buffer sizeE<gt> -Win32 only: set capture buffer size (in MB, default is 1MB). This is used by the -the capture driver to buffer packet data until that data can be written to -disk. If you encounter packet drops while capturing, try to increase this size. +Set capture buffer size (in MB; default is platform-dependent). This is +used by the the capture driver to buffer packet data until that data can +be written to disk. If you encounter packet drops while capturing, try +to increase this size. + +This is available on on UNIX systems with libpcap 1.0.0 or later and on +Windows. It is not available on UNIX systems with earlier versions of +libpcap. =item -c E<lt>capture packet countE<gt> |