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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
To:        grog@lemis.com, tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu
Cc:        joe@via.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tcpdump
Message-ID:  <199710101404.JAA26051@plains.NoDak.edu>

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>  In fact, unless you ask for link-level headers with the -e option,
>  you'll just get the IP datagram if it *is* IP.

I meant to say that the Berkeley Packet Filter/tcpdump works on the
whole ethernet frame. The TCP part of the tcpdump name, may give the
impression that it only can work on the TCP or IP level.

The BPF/tcpdump is even generic enough that we have made very small
modifications to make it filter/display ATM information.

--mark.



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