Re: tcpdump 4.0.0 + libpcap 1.0.0 Released

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Tyson Key wrote:

> It seems to work fine now, although I could probably do with  
> automatically
> setting the "snaplen" somehow.

I.e., defaulting to the maximum (65535) rather than the current  
default of 64 (without IPv6) or 96 (with IPv6)?

At least one OS that distributes tcpdump has considered making the  
default 65535.  Should the default be 65535, especially given that,  
the "tcp" in "tcpdump" nonwithstanding, it's used to do more than just  
look at TCP behavior?
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