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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-12-12 20:12:04 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2018-12-12 20:12:04 +0000
commitb0b356140cbeb9ce48a27e41389955b652addd3d (patch)
tree84e0d428e08ba4297d386e35324b0561c0075360 /lib/libpcap
parentd56006d435e645e2f95dd652aa9199abddd629a3 (diff)
some pcap_setdirection details; from jan stary
ok djm
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libpcap')
-rw-r--r--lib/libpcap/pcap.313
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libpcap/pcap.3 b/lib/libpcap/pcap.3
index 1a3f8dc1d14..a6cbdac2e99 100644
--- a/lib/libpcap/pcap.3
+++ b/lib/libpcap/pcap.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pcap.3,v 1.48 2018/06/03 10:45:15 tb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pcap.3,v 1.49 2018/12/12 20:12:03 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 3 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 12 2018 $
.Dt PCAP_OPEN_LIVE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -535,6 +535,15 @@ datalink types.
.Fn pcap_setdirection
is used to limit the direction that packets must be flowing in order
to be captured.
+The direction is either
+.Dv PCAP_D_INOUT ,
+.Dv PCAP_D_IN
+or
+.Dv PCAP_D_OUT .
+Direction is only relevant to live captures.
+When reading from a dump file,
+.Fn pcap_setdirection
+has no effect.
.Pp
.Fn pcap_list_datalinks
returns an array of the supported datalink types for an opened live capture