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author | pkelsey <pkelsey@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-07-08 16:19:32 +0000 |
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committer | pkelsey <pkelsey@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-07-08 16:19:32 +0000 |
commit | 7e965066ede451d7a551dd68d6c59acf32e4846e (patch) | |
tree | f0c2243cc0a2a59f3eb1354ba3987d4cbcb788bc /contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in | |
parent | 732211dc794db586649eabfc1d517b8a477440f5 (diff) | |
parent | c2704d8ede887d9fe69a9a11fe0755b09ec6895d (diff) | |
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MFV r285191: tcpdump 4.7.4.
Also, the changes made in r272451 and r272653 that were lost in the
merge of 4.6.2 (r276788) have been restored.
PR: 199568
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3007
Reviewed by: brooks, hiren
Approved by: jmallett (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in')
-rw-r--r-- | contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in | 25 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in b/contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in index a966469..f9522cb 100644 --- a/contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in +++ b/contrib/tcpdump/tcpdump.1.in @@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ tcpdump \- dump traffic on a network [ .BI \-\-time\-stamp\-precision= tstamp_precision ] +.ti +8 +[ +.B \-\-immediate\-mode +] [ .B \-\-version ] @@ -140,7 +144,9 @@ tcpdump \- dump traffic on a network .SH DESCRIPTION .LP \fITcpdump\fP prints out a description of the contents of packets on a -network interface that match the boolean \fIexpression\fP. It can also +network interface that match the boolean \fIexpression\fP; the +description is preceded by a time stamp, printed, by default, as hours, +minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second since midnight. It can also be run with the .B \-w flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later @@ -204,7 +210,9 @@ your ``status'' character, typically control-T, although on some platforms, such as Mac OS X, the ``status'' character is not set by default, so you must set it with .BR stty (1) -in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets. +in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets. On platforms that +do not support the SIGINFO signal, the same can be achieved by using the +SIGUSR1 signal. .LP Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have special privileges; see the @@ -419,6 +427,13 @@ monitor mode will be shown; if is specified, only those link-layer types available when in monitor mode will be shown. .TP +.BI \-\-immediate\-mode +Capture in "immediate mode". In this mode, packets are delivered to +tcpdump as soon as they arrive, rather than being buffered for +efficiency. This is the default when printing packets rather than +saving packets to a ``savefile'' if the packets are being printed to a +terminal rather than to a file or pipe. +.TP .BI \-j " tstamp_type" .PD 0 .TP @@ -655,14 +670,16 @@ an encapsulated PGM packet. \fIDon't\fP print a timestamp on each dump line. .TP .B \-tt -Print an unformatted timestamp on each dump line. +Print the timestamp, as seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00, UTC, and +fractions of a second since that time, on each dump line. .TP .B \-ttt Print a delta (micro-second resolution) between current and previous line on each dump line. .TP .B \-tttt -Print a timestamp in default format proceeded by date on each dump line. +Print a timestamp, as hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second +since midnight, preceded by the date, on each dump line. .TP .B \-ttttt Print a delta (micro-second resolution) between current and first line |