On 2001-01-04, Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few issues for discussion, some from the patch, some from elsewhere: > * -n doesn't print protocol ports (add -nn for current behaviour?) > -> -n is usually used to avoid DNS lookups, many would probably be ok > with seeing port numbers translated Hm. I'm afraid for scripts which expect -n to give all-numeric, meaning \s([0-9.]+\.([0-9]+)\s will match IP and port (to give arbitrary example). This would've been a good thing to consider a few years ago ;) But I'm afraid now it's too late? > * promiscuous mode setting is reversed, should be disabled by default?. > -> well, this is a matter of taste I suppose. True. But my taste is... please, please, no. -p means not promisc. Default is promisc, like God intended. ;) If one wants to change the default promisc behavior, then please at least choose some flag other than -p to turn it on (is -P free?). Bad enough to re-order the universe; using the same labels on knobs that do the inverse of their old behavior is nasty. > * SMB printing should not be so noisy (nbt packets..) without -v. +1. Please, please, please ;) Since almost any network you'll plug into nowadays has some netbios broadcast noise, SMB printing multiple lines when not even in -v is quite irritating. In fact I'd love to see netbios decodes not print more than 1 line unless, say, -vv or -vvv is used. [ Of course, I'm in no place to talk--having contributed zero code. But them's me thoughts, ignore away! ;) ] -- Hank Leininger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
