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authorStuart Henderson <sthen@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-02-14 14:45:32 +0000
committerStuart Henderson <sthen@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-02-14 14:45:32 +0000
commit6494de0183b9adca3b9122bfd221aea4f6c93b52 (patch)
tree55d6c08e989a51a25bad1556f0777aa67d8454f1 /usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8
parent7e7825012230d20aa75d23e8ba37c844b9e9d5d6 (diff)
document increased default snaplen; pointed out by dhill
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.88
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8 b/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8
index 085cf8ed35a..945105ca1e5 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tcpdump.8,v 1.67 2008/04/21 08:17:23 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tcpdump.8,v 1.68 2009/02/14 14:45:31 sthen Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
.\" 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: April 21 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 14 2009 $
.Dt TCPDUMP 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ Print absolute, rather than relative, TCP sequence numbers.
.It Fl s Ar snaplen
Analyze at most the first
.Ar snaplen
-bytes of data from each packet rather than the default of 96.
-96 bytes is adequate for IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP,
+bytes of data from each packet rather than the default of 116.
+116 bytes is adequate for IPv6, ICMP, TCP, and UDP,
but may truncate protocol information from name server and NFS packets
.Pq see below .
Packets truncated because of a limited