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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2011-10-23 22:49:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2011-10-23 22:49:11 +0000 |
| commit | 051d46467f516b623ab4ce039ac06e0f0a5d505f (patch) | |
| tree | ff8fa6865c3390d2514d52c90ec32d1400283512 /doc | |
| parent | ed79560623358776fb1a14410383e1523ca1f400 (diff) | |
Speak of a "link-layer header type" rather than a "link-layer type"; a
given link-layer type, e.g. 802.11, might have multiple header types
(802.11, 802.11 plus various radio headers, Ethernet), and multiple
link-layer types might have the same header type (802.11 interfaces
might supply Ethernet headers, and Linux loopback interfaces supply
Ethernet headers as well).
Point to tcpdump.org's page of link-layer header types, rather than to
the net/bpf.h header that 1) might not exist on your system and 2) might
not be up-to-date if it does exist.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=39529
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/text2pcap.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/text2pcap.pod b/doc/text2pcap.pod index e4e4afda2f..070d73378d 100644 --- a/doc/text2pcap.pod +++ b/doc/text2pcap.pod @@ -108,11 +108,12 @@ hex. This corresponds to the C<-A> option for I<od>. =item -l -Specify the link-layer type of this packet. Default is Ethernet -(1). See I<net/bpf.h> for the complete list of possible -encapsulations. Note that this option should be used if your dump is a -complete hex dump of an encapsulated packet and you wish to specify -the exact type of encapsulation. Example: I<-l 7> for ARCNet packets. +Specify the link-layer header type of this packet. Default is Ethernet +(1). See L<http://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html> for the complete list +of possible encapsulations. Note that this option should be used if +your dump is a complete hex dump of an encapsulated packet and you wish +to specify the exact type of encapsulation. Example: I<-l 7> for ARCNet +packets. =item -e E<lt>l3pidE<gt> |