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| author | Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@cisco.com> | 2001-05-16 22:50:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@cisco.com> | 2001-05-16 22:50:36 +0000 |
| commit | 28fb6a9ade214f43b37369c6160dd4e014bfb520 (patch) | |
| tree | 72ca4a29eebb64a9dc0a3708c8f36521ad7bccea /doc | |
| parent | e7fa2d44fa62621a93c030d0e06d6c59af078eb8 (diff) | |
Documentation fix to generalize 'text2pcap -e' for all L3 packets instead of just IP.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=3423
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/text2pcap.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/text2pcap.pod b/doc/text2pcap.pod index 42c88658a3..f8a913dd93 100644 --- a/doc/text2pcap.pod +++ b/doc/text2pcap.pod @@ -104,9 +104,15 @@ the exact type of encapsulation. Example: I<-l 7> for ARCNet packets. =item -e l3pid Include a dummy Ethernet header before each packet. Specify the L3PID -for the Ethernet header in hex. Use this option if your dump is an IP -packet with IP header and payload, but no Layer 2 -encapsulation. Example: I<-e 0x806> to specify an ARP packet. +for the Ethernet header in hex. Use this option if your dump has Layer +3 header and payload (e.g. IP header), but no Layer 2 +encapsulation. Example: I<-e 0x806> to specify an ARP packet. + +For IP packets, instead of generating a fake Ethernet header you can +also use I<-l 12> to indicate a raw IP packet to Ethereal. Note that +I<-l 12> does not work for any non-IP Layer 3 packet (e.g. ARP), +whereas generating a dummy Ethernet header with I<-e> works for any +sort of L3 packet. =item -i proto |