bin/105334: Error in output of tcpdump(1)

[antoine at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: Error in output of tcpdump(1)

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: antoine
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 7 18:35:23 UTC 2008
State-Changed-Why: 
>From the tcpdump man page:
%%%
       Sun NFS (Network File System) requests and replies are printed as:
              src.xid > dst.nfs: len op args
              src.nfs > dst.xid: reply stat len op results
              sushi.6709 > wrl.nfs: 112 readlink fh 21,24/10.73165
              wrl.nfs > sushi.6709: reply ok 40 readlink "../var"
              sushi.201b > wrl.nfs:
                   144 lookup fh 9,74/4096.6878 "xcolors"
              wrl.nfs > sushi.201b:
                   reply ok 128 lookup fh 9,74/4134.3150
       In the first line, host sushi sends a transaction with id 6709  to  wrl
       (note  that  the number following the src host is a transaction id, not
       the source port).  The request was 112 bytes, excluding the UDP and  IP
       headers.   The  operation  was  a readlink (read symbolic link) on file
       handle (fh) 21,24/10.731657119.  (If one is lucky, as in this case, the
       file  handle  can  be  interpreted as a major,minor device number pair,
       followed by the inode number and generation number.)  Wrl replies  `ok'
       with the contents of the link.

       In  the  third  line,  sushi  asks  wrl to lookup the name `xcolors' in
       directory file 9,74/4096.6878.  Note that the data printed  depends  on
       the  operation  type.  The format is intended to be self explanatory if
       read in conjunction with an NFS protocol spec.
%%%

So what you see is the transaction id and not a source port.
If you want to see the port you can use tcpdump -q.
Do you agree that this PR can be closed?


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