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From: Robert Klein <RoKlein@roklein.de>
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To: "Jamie Heckford" <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:20:31 +0200
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On Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 17:56, Jamie Heckford wrote:
> Im running samba and these messages appear when examining traffic
> with
> tcpdump:
                [packet data deleted]
> WARNING: Short packet. Try increasing the snap length
>
> Is this something to be worried about and is it a FreeBSD or SAMBA
> problem?


That's nothing to be worried about.  Tcpdump only snaps a certain
amount of each packet (68 bytes per default, I believe).  This is
enough to get information concerning IP, ICMP, TCP and UDP, but may
not be enough for other protocols.  Use tcpdump with a greater
snaplength, e.g. "tcpdump -s 200" instead of simply "tcpdump".

See the man page for tcpdump(1) for more information.

Regards,
Robert



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