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authorJakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>2012-05-12 19:49:49 +0000
committerJakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl>2012-05-12 19:49:49 +0000
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From r37696 default file format for dumpcap is pcap-ng. Fix manuals.
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@@ -32,10 +32,9 @@ S<[ B<-y> E<lt>capture link typeE<gt> ]>
B<Dumpcap> is a network traffic dump tool. It lets you capture packet
data from a live network and write the packets to a file. B<Dumpcap>'s
-native capture file format is B<libpcap> format, which is also the format
-used by B<Wireshark>, B<tcpdump> and various other tools.
-When the B<-n> option is specified, the output file is written in the
-new B<pcapng> format.
+default capture file format is B<pcap-ng> format.
+When the B<-P> option is specified, the output file is written in the
+B<libpcap> format.
Without any options set it will
use the pcap library to capture traffic from the first available network