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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000 |
commit | 1514fcff5f94bc02e1c4ee117bdacb459ebd184c (patch) | |
tree | 8e89acab04fdc2ccc4c0fc40bf2a876fa466d4fb /doc/dumpcap.pod | |
parent | b93465327798583bbc7ee89f26eae8f6273ec130 (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.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=27526
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dumpcap.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/dumpcap.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod index fcf0ffe0c4..6b9723950a 100644 --- a/doc/dumpcap.pod +++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod @@ -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 |