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author | Michael Tüxen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de> | 2011-06-28 22:02:43 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Tüxen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de> | 2011-06-28 22:02:43 +0000 |
commit | bd6db2a824f6e59bde0c447e9cb7be4abdc60768 (patch) | |
tree | ee0be41f8aa84a13ecc8f838a1b36db3904459a6 /doc/tshark.pod | |
parent | 52abc59011366f7797d327b7a926ad2ca0ed962d (diff) |
Document the handling of command line parameters with respect to
the capturing on multiple interfaces.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=37824
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diff --git a/doc/tshark.pod b/doc/tshark.pod index 6fcb0d8216..8ef18ba781 100644 --- a/doc/tshark.pod +++ b/doc/tshark.pod @@ -214,6 +214,13 @@ This is available 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. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, it sets the default capture buffer size. +If used after an B<-i> option, it sets the capture buffer size for +the interface specified by the last B<-i> option occurring before +this option. If the capture buffer size is not set specifically, +the default capture buffer size is used if provided. + =item -c E<lt>capture packet countE<gt> Set the maximum number of packets to read when capturing live @@ -308,6 +315,13 @@ uses double-quotes, B<s> single-quotes, B<n> no quotes (the default). Set the capture filter expression. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, it sets the default capture filter expression. +If used after an B<-i> option, it sets the capture filter expression for +the interface specified by the last B<-i> option occurring before +this option. If the capture filter expression is not set specifically, +the default capture filter expression is used if provided. + =item -F E<lt>file formatE<gt> Set the file format of the output capture file written using the B<-w> @@ -433,6 +447,9 @@ Pipe names should be either the name of a FIFO (named pipe) or ``-'' to read data from the standard input. Data read from pipes must be in standard libpcap format. +This option can occur multiple times. When capturing from multiple +interfaces, the capture file will be saved in pcap-ng format. + Note: the Win32 version of B<TShark> doesn't support capturing from pipes! @@ -448,6 +465,12 @@ files on a network server, or resolving host names or network addresses, if you are capturing in monitor mode and are not connected to another network with another adapter. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, it enables the monitor mode for all interfaces. +If used after an B<-i> option, it enables the monitor mode for +the interface specified by the last B<-i> option occurring before +this option. + =item -K E<lt>keytabE<gt> Load kerberos crypto keys from the specified keytab file. @@ -518,6 +541,13 @@ traffic sent to or from the machine on which B<TShark> is running, broadcast traffic, and multicast traffic to addresses received by that machine. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, no interface will be put into the +promiscuous mode. +If used after an B<-i> option, the interface specified by the last B<-i> +option occurring before this option will not be put into the +promiscuous mode. + =item -q When capturing packets, don't display the continuous count of packets @@ -554,6 +584,13 @@ No more than I<snaplen> bytes of each network packet will be read into 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. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, it sets the default snapshot length. +If used after an B<-i> option, it sets the snapshot length for +the interface specified by the last B<-i> option occurring before +this option. If the snapshot length is not set specifically, +the default snapshot length is used if provided. + =item -S Decode and display packets even while writing raw packet data using the @@ -665,6 +702,13 @@ default Lua scripts. Set the data link type to use while capturing packets. The values reported by B<-L> are the values that can be used. +This option can occur multiple times. If used before the first +occurrence of the B<-i> option, it sets the default capture link type. +If used after an B<-i> option, it sets the capture link type for +the interface specified by the last B<-i> option occurring before +this option. If the capture link type is not set specifically, +the default capture link type is used if provided. + =item -z E<lt>statisticsE<gt> Get B<TShark> to collect various types of statistics and display the result |