Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:24:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: antoine@FreeBSD.org Cc: olli@secnetix.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/105334: Error in output of tcpdump(1) Message-ID: <200804071924.m37JOAXe051443@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200804071844.m37IiOlF090439@freefall.freebsd.org>
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antoine@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: Error in output of tcpdump(1) > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: antoine > State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 7 18:35:23 UTC 2008 > State-Changed-Why: > > From the tcpdump man page: > %%% > Sun NFS (Network File System) requests and replies are printed as: > src.xid > dst.nfs: len op args > src.nfs > dst.xid: reply stat len op results > [...] > %%% > > So what you see is the transaction id and not a source port. > If you want to see the port you can use tcpdump -q. > Do you agree that this PR can be closed? Well, yes, close it. I still think that tcpdump behaviour is wrong, or at least misleading. Having to specify -q (quiet?) to actually get more information (i.e. the port number, which I expect to be displayed by _default_) is not intuitive, and it's not documented this way. This makes it more difficult to post-process output in scripts. But all of that is probably way beyond the scope of this PR, so please close it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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