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and subject line Closing, fixed many years ago
has caused the Debian Bug report #141349,
regarding Please improve parsing of "ip proto"
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Package: tcpdump
Version: 3.6.2-2
Severity: normal
The manual page says that that to filter for ICMP one must say
tcpdump ip proto icmp
but that causes tcpdump to display:
tcpdump: parse error
Instead one must say:
tcpdump ip proto ICMP
Either the man page or the program is in error.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux damiel 2.4.18-pre8-ben0 #4 Sun Feb 10 16:49:07 GMT 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages tcpdump depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpcap0 0.6.2-2 System interface for user-level pa
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--- Begin Message ---
libpcap has supported 'icmp' as an abbreviation for 'ip proto \icmp'
to alleviate this parsing issue for many years, I guess we can close
this one.
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