It means its being truncated. Try adjusting the snaplen. You should be able to do -s 0 to make sure you capture the entire packet or you can specify a length such as -s 1024. Do a man tcpdump and search for snaplen.
ie: tcpdump -i fxp0 -s 0 udp port 1812 -Dusty Doris On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, jesk wrote: > I have a question to tcpdumping FreeRADIUS. > in some auth-replies there a missing some attributes but instead of them i > can see at the end of a tcpdump line the following: > "[|radius]" > > what does this exactly mean? > > f.e.: > --- > 12:58:05.215548 x.x.x.x.1645 > x.x.x.x.1645: rad-access-accept 217 [id 14] > Attr[ Framed_ipaddr{10.10.10.10} [|radius] > --- > > normaly i can see a lot of more output: > --- > 13:14:56.867709 x.x.x.x.1645 > x.x.x.x.1645: rad-access-accept 38 [id 37] > Attr[ Framed_ipaddr{11.1.1.11} Framed_proto{PPP} Service_type{Framed} ] > --- > > does somebody have an idea? > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html