----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hannah Schroeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Openbsd Misc (E-mail)" <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: tcpdump -s0


> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:32:04AM -0400, arthur wrote:
> >-s0 always error with 'invalid snaplen 0' and the man page doen't mention
how
> >to capture full frame.
>
> >However, the man of tcpdump support s0
> >(http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html)
>
> You don't invoke the manual page of OpenBSD's tcpdump via looking at a
> foreign web page.
>
> Either use man tcpdump on your OpenBSD box or use
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi
>
> I see nothing about a special handling of "0" as value for the option -s
> there.
Thanks for the quick reply. I did check the OpenBSD man and find out 'the
man page doen't mention how
to capture full frame' (as in my email, sorry for my English)

> >How could I capture full messages.
>
> Use an appropriate high value (e.g. as high as the MTU of the interface)
> for -s.
I will do that. BTW, do you know is there any limitiation of the number.

> Kind regards,
>
> Hannah.

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