Re: [tcpdump-workers] pcap_loop error

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Kreibich
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:09, Christian Kreibich wrote: > pretty much harmless -- you'll just lose that incomplete last byte in That should have been "packet", sorry. Christian. -- _

Re: [tcpdump-workers] pcap_loop error

2004-04-21 Thread Christian Kreibich
Hi, in the pcap file format, each packet is prefixed by a little header structure that tells pcap details about the following packet. "truncated dump file" means that at the end of the trace, there's a pcap packet header that states that a packet of a size follows that actually is not fully conta

[tcpdump-workers] pcap_loop error

2004-04-21 Thread hela boucetta
hello, I am using tcpdump to capture packets from the netwok. I need to divide traces to incoming and outgoing packets. So I wrote a filter file which contains IP adresses. when I use the command : tcpdump -r tracefile.dump -F filterfile -w traceIn.dump, I got the error message : pcap_loop:trun