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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:57:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
To:        joe@via.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpdump
Message-ID:  <199710092057.PAA12896@plains.NoDak.edu>

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>  Does tcpdump dump the entire packet?

the default action is to copy the first 83 bytes from kernel space to
the tcpdump application. The option -s can change that default.
>
>  Does the dumped data include the tcp headers or is it the 
>  "payload"?

the dumped data is the ethernet frame (which may be IP, or not).

--mark.



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