Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Layer 3+ and Layer 2 stuff also

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
Jerry Talkington said:
> For both tethereal and tcpdump, the size of the packets are limited
> unless you specify -s 0 to remove the limit of the snapshot length:

For tcpdump, yes (although older versions don't support "-s 0"; in those
versions, you have to say "-s 65535").

For tethereal, no - the default snapshot length is 65535 (which should be
enough for all link-layer packets), not 68 or 96 as is the case with
tcpdump.