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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2005-11-18 06:12:17 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2005-11-18 06:12:17 +0000
commit93e66072c1211e601582733e0c9b904c551e6609 (patch)
tree711b3fe380159fb905a3cd815ea5dc9ff229694f /doc/tethereal.pod
parent6753da5403a289a34cfdcb91f0bf92a5bd4b5280 (diff)
Add support for the "-B" flag to Tethereal on Windows.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=16542
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diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod b/doc/tethereal.pod
index 063de402fb..12460b1b10 100644
--- a/doc/tethereal.pod
+++ b/doc/tethereal.pod
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ tethereal - Dump and analyze network traffic
B<tethereal>
S<[ B<-a> capture autostop condition ] ...>
S<[ B<-b> capture ring buffer option] ...>
+S<[ B<-B> capture buffer size (Win32 only) ] >
S<[ B<-c> capture packet count ]>
S<[ B<-d> <layer type>==<selector>,<decode-as protocol> ]>
S<[ B<-D> ]>
@@ -280,6 +281,12 @@ I<value> kilobytes (where a kilobyte is 1024 bytes).
B<files>:I<value> begin again with the first file after I<value> number of
files were written (form a ring buffer).
+=item -B
+
+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.
+
=item -c
Set the maximum number of packets to read when capturing live