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| author | Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> | 2020-09-15 11:54:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> | 2020-09-15 12:15:47 +0100 |
| commit | afb355923c6d4e35a86e89de405545fc1481fcac (patch) | |
| tree | 4c88d9216258afb5335cc53c4fcab91012293969 | |
| parent | a8bba6ff8e20736ea89ecf3f1bfb83b9b30ea20a (diff) | |
| download | tcpdump-afb355923c6d4e35a86e89de405545fc1481fcac.tar.gz | |
Add more "-v" detail to tcpdump(1) for GH #380. [skip ci]
Capture what Guy has figured out so far.
| -rw-r--r-- | tcpdump.1.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tcpdump.1.in b/tcpdump.1.in index bf4d7b20..107a103c 100644 --- a/tcpdump.1.in +++ b/tcpdump.1.in @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" -.TH TCPDUMP 1 "29 Aug 2020" +.TH TCPDUMP 1 "15 September 2020" .SH NAME tcpdump \- dump traffic on a network .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -810,7 +810,10 @@ When writing to a file with the .B \-w option and at the same time not reading from a file with the .B \-r -option, report, once per second, the number of packets captured. +option, report to stderr, once per second, the number of packets captured. In +Solaris, FreeBSD and possibly other operating systems this periodic update +currently can cause loss of captured packets on their way from the kernel to +tcpdump. .TP .B \-vv Even more verbose output. |