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| author | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2016-10-03 15:18:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> | 2016-10-04 00:09:48 +0000 |
| commit | 8ea52e2f4902325809d420120cebbd97dc47518b (patch) | |
| tree | 3d0df88ce5dbab620fa966527a61f73beb4c154f /doc/dumpcap.pod | |
| parent | a68dd39a01d7490383f306f2dc35fb8f079b8c69 (diff) | |
| download | wireshark-8ea52e2f4902325809d420120cebbd97dc47518b.tar.gz | |
Man pages: Update -D flag text.
Refer to "Windows" instead of "Windows 2000". Add an "ip link show"
breadcrumb.
Change-Id: Ie1faa1d30b0ac63de35b0385cbb1306f08828e61
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/18056
Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod index b643970fba..b0b1483a4b 100644 --- a/doc/dumpcap.pod +++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod @@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ interface, is printed. The interface name or the number can be supplied to the B<-i> option to specify an interface on which to capture. This can be useful on systems that don't have a command to list them -(e.g., Windows systems, or UNIX systems lacking B<ifconfig -a>); -the number can be useful on Windows 2000 and later systems, where the -interface name is a somewhat complex string. +(UNIX systems lacking B<ifconfig -a> or Linux systems lacking +B<ip link show>). The number can be useful on Windows systems, where +the interface name might be a long name or a GUID. Note that "can capture" means that B<Dumpcap> was able to open that device to do a live capture. Depending on your system you may need to |