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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:49:02 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r241045 - head/share/man/man4
Message-ID:  <201209291049.q8TAn2g1011575@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: glebius
Date: Sat Sep 29 10:49:02 2012
New Revision: 241045
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241045

Log:
  Give a clue how to force tcpdump(8) to interpret correctly CARP packets.

Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/carp.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/carp.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/carp.4	Sat Sep 29 08:11:12 2012	(r241044)
+++ head/share/man/man4/carp.4	Sat Sep 29 10:49:02 2012	(r241045)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 30, 2012
+.Dd September 29, 2012
 .Dt CARP 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -287,6 +287,19 @@ notify 0 {
 	action "/root/carpcontrol.sh $subsystem $type";
 };
 .Ed
+.Pp
+To see
+.Nm
+packets decoded in
+.Xr tcpdump 8
+output, one needs to specify
+.Fl T Ar carp
+option, otherwise
+.Xr tcpdump 8
+tries to interpret them as VRRP packets:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+tcpdump -npi vlan0 -T carp
+.Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr inet 4 ,
 .Xr pfsync 4 ,
@@ -294,6 +307,7 @@ notify 0 {
 .Xr devd.conf 5 ,
 .Xr ifconfig 8 ,
 .Xr sysctl 8
+.Xr tcpdump 8
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm



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