tcpdump on any interface

[Riho Randla <riho () hot ee>]

Hello,

When dcpdump didn't have the "-i any" option, it listened, if not defined, 
on all interfaces and outputed the interface name at the start of each 
line:

eth0 > eth1 <

Afterwards, the interface names had lost, and came the "-i any" option. I 
found it very helpful seeing the interface names before the packet data, 
especially if needed to debug some complicated forwarding or routing 
between servers with many interfaces. Why the developers removed that 
feature, I don't know. I didn't find any question nor answer about the 
issue, too, in newsgroups. Can anybody explain that? Is it possible to add 
the interface names at the start of the lines, as was early?

Thanks,

Riho
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