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Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535?
From: Arien Vijn <arien.vijn () ams-ix net>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:58:32 +0100
On 10 Mar. 2009, at 2:01 AM, Eloy Paris wrote:
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:52:50PM +0100, Arien Vijn wrote:
Therefore it would be a good idea to make this an option during compiletime.Hmmm. Wouldn't this be a bit overkill? And even if we went down this path, I don't think that recompiling with the option to revert to the shorter snapshot length by default will be that much easier for administrators than editing legacy scripts to add "-s 68" to tcpdump invokations.
I meant it the other way around :) I suggested to leave the defaults to what they are. From experience I know that changing defaults are often not appreciated by the many administrators with lots of things on their minds.
For those who don't like to type "-s 0" it would be nice to have the option to get rid of that under compile time.
Things should not be static for ever though. IMO the default can be changed in the next major release (5), not in any 4.x.x release.
Cheers, Arien - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Arien Vijn (Mar 09)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Francois-Xavier Le Bail (Mar 22)
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