Re: Default snaplen in man page

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

Hi Martin,

Yes, there is a bug on man (forget to update after last update...
https://code.wireshark.org/review/2658 )

You can open a bug or push directly on fix.

Cheers


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Martin Sehnoutka <msehnout () redhat com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm investigating why Wireshark is dropping packets when capturing over
> loopback and I think the man page is wrong with the default snaplen. It
> says that the default size is 65535, but if I'm not mistaken the default
> size is set in capture_opts.c which leads to WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE in
> wiretap/wtap.h and the value is 262144.
>
> $ grep snaplen capture_opts.c
>     capture_opts->default_options.has_snaplen     = FALSE;
>     capture_opts->default_options.snaplen         = WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE;
>
> $ grep WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE wiretap/wtap.h
> #define WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE    262144
>
> When running wireshark it indeed seems like the default value is 262144
> (it drops the same amount of packets, as it does without specifying any
> snaplen). Should I fill in a bug report?
>
> Regards,
>
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