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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2009-02-23 19:00:30 +0000
commit1514fcff5f94bc02e1c4ee117bdacb459ebd184c (patch)
tree8e89acab04fdc2ccc4c0fc40bf2a876fa466d4fb /doc/dumpcap.pod
parentb93465327798583bbc7ee89f26eae8f6273ec130 (diff)
downloadwireshark-1514fcff5f94bc02e1c4ee117bdacb459ebd184c.tar.gz
Have the minimum snapshot length be 1 byte, and have a snapshot length
of 0 mean 65535, similar to what tcpdump does. Fixes bug 2731. svn path=/trunk/; revision=27526
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@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ machine.
Set the default snapshot length to use when capturing live data.
No more than I<snaplen> bytes of each network packet will be read into
-memory, or saved to disk.
+memory, or saved to disk. A value of 0 specifies a snapshot length of
+65535, so that the full packet is captured; this is the default.
=item -v