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| author | sake <sake@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2011-02-04 21:09:55 +0000 |
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| committer | sake <sake@f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7> | 2011-02-04 21:09:55 +0000 |
| commit | 166bd033b4e3397a6408b253f27a7dc8234d9c7b (patch) | |
| tree | 7443535d2692f3b011d66d679f93e154ebd15615 /doc | |
| parent | c955d91715805512f375cd72f2322b4ffecc503e (diff) | |
From Jason Masker (bug 5240):
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Allow editcap to chop from beginning of packet for decapsulation
git-svn-id: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk@35832 f5534014-38df-0310-8fa8-9805f1628bb7
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/editcap.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/editcap.pod b/doc/editcap.pod index 7101ea7d00..bf699723b5 100644 --- a/doc/editcap.pod +++ b/doc/editcap.pod @@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ opened. The default is to use a single output file. =item -C E<lt>choplenE<gt> -Sets the chop length to use when writing the packet data. -Each packet is chopped at the packet end by a few <choplen> bytes of data. +Sets the chop length to use when writing the packet data. Each packet is +chopped by a few <choplen> bytes of data. Positive values chop at the packet +beginning while negative values chop at the packet end. -This is useful in the rare case that the conversion between two file -formats leaves some random bytes at the end of each packet. +This is useful for chopping headers for decapsulation of an entire capture or +in the rare case that the conversion between two file formats leaves some random +bytes at the end of each packet. =item -d |