Bug 10739
| Summary: | ANK patches to tcpdump changes option behaviour without documenting it | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | dgaudet-redhat | ||||
| Component: | tcpdump | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | dgaudet-redhat | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| URL: | http://arctic.org/~dean/patches/tcpdump-3.4-optfix.patch | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2000-07-11 18:15:21 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 6464, 9546, 10506, 11376 | ||||||
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I didn't see a patch attached, so here goes one of my own. It documents the changes in man page and in tcpdump source. Hopefully this will clear up the documentation mess a bit. Created attachment 1002 [details]
proposed documentation change
Fixed (your patch applied) in tcpdump-3.4-22. Thanks *very* much for the patch. |
the ANK patches applied to tcpdump change the behaviour of a few options, and add new options, without documenting. -a is overloaded -- it will cause an ascii dump to be generated in the patch referenced above i chose to change this flag to -A and document it in the manpage. -n specified only once will still convert port numbers to names, it needs to be specified twice to get behaviour like stock tcpdump i documented this in the manpage. the stock tcpdump default is to enable promiscuous mode, and -p disables it. the ANK tcpdump by default does not have promiscuous mode enabled, and -p will enable it. i documented this difference. i didn't choose to document the new -X, -R or -b flags; i'm not totally sure what they're there for. thanks -dean