Hi Han,

Han Boetes wrote on Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:08:53PM +0059:

> The current libpcap distribution contains the pcap-filter manpage
> which in my opinion is a very useful manpage for the use of tcpdump.

Sure.

On OpenBSD, the same information is included in the tcpdump(8) manual.

> http://www.manpagez.com/man/7/pcap-filter/
> http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.2.1.tar.gz
> 
> Please consider adding it to the distribution.

>From cursory inspection, it looks like OpenBSD is using a fork of
libpcap 0.4 or 0.5, selectively including later tcpdump.org
additions, but not tracking upstream development closely,
so including parts of the libpcap 1.2.1 manual would seem wrong.

In any case, it documents at least some keywords not available
here, so it can't be included as it is.

For example:

  ischwarze@isnote $ sudo tcpdump -i em0 portrange 22-24 
  tcpdump: syntax error

Yours,
  Ingo

Reply via email to