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Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535?
From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail () yahoo com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
Hello, Is there a plan to add to tcpdump an environment variable like "TCPDUMP" to add options to the command line ? Best Regards, Francois-Xavier Le Bail --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail () yahoo com> wrote:
From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail () yahoo com> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? To: "Eloy Paris" <peloy () chapus net>, tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org Cc: "Arien Vijn" <arien.vijn () ams-ix net> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:24 AM Hello, Why not an environment variable like TCPDUMP="-s 68" to add options to the command line ? Best Regards, Francois-Xavier Le Bail --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Arien Vijn <arien.vijn () ams-ix net> wrote:From: Arien Vijn <arien.vijn () ams-ix net> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should the defaultsnapshot length in tcpdump be 65535?To: "Eloy Paris" <peloy () chapus net> Cc: "Arien Vijn"<arien.vijn () ams-ix net>, tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump orgDate: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 2:58 AM On 10 Mar. 2009, at 2:01 AM, Eloy Paris wrote:On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:52:50PM +0100, ArienVijnwrote:Therefore it would be a good idea to makethis anoption during compiletime.Hmmm. Wouldn't this be a bit overkill? Andeven ifwe went down thispath, I don't think that recompiling with theoption to revert tothe shorter snapshot length by default will bethatmuch easier foradministrators than editing legacy scripts to add"-s 68" to tcpdumpinvokations.I meant it the other way around :) I suggested toleave thedefaults to what they are. From experience I know that changing defaults are often not appreciated by themanyadministrators with lots of things on their minds. For those who don't like to type "-s 0"itwould be nice to have the option to get rid of thatundercompile time. Things should not be static for ever though. IMO the default can be changed in the next major release (5),not inany 4.x.x release. Cheers, Arien - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.- This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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Current thread:
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump, (continued)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump Aaron Turner (Feb 20)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump Eloy Paris (Feb 21)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Michael Richardson (Feb 21)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Ken Bantoft (Feb 21)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Francois-Xavier Le Bail (Feb 23)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Ken Bantoft (Feb 21)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Guy Harris (Mar 09)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Arien Vijn (Mar 09)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in Eloy Paris (Mar 09)
- 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)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Francois-Xavier Le Bail (Mar 25)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump be 65535? Arien Vijn (Mar 09)
- Re: Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump Aaron Turner (Feb 20)