On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:50:14AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote: > > since netbsd's -D and -L seem instrinsically related, yet the official > > tcpdump -D doesn't seem that far off, and since the netbsd change is > > rather recent, how about merging/switching the two functionalities? > > this would mean that -D would give me (for example): > > > > % tcpdump -D > > 1.lo0 NULL > > 8.ep0 EN10MB > > 9.wi0 EN10MB IEEE802_11 > > Yes, that might be a good idea, although that doesn't offer an option to > display just the link-layer types for one particular interface - I guess > we could allow "-i" and "-D" to be used together, and have that display > the link-layer types for the interface specified with "-i" (and maybe > leave out the interface number if that's done).
It also doesn't help with the issue I was mentioning, which was that "-D" was already taken by WinPcap to mean "show a list of interfaces", and wasn't available for the NetBSD use meaning "set the DLT type for an interface". - 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
