bin/151036: [patch] Default snaplen of tcpdump(1) is not adequate to todays packet filters

[jhell]

The following reply was made to PR bin/151036; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jhell <jhell at DataIX.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jhell at DataIX.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/151036: [patch] Default snaplen of tcpdump(1) is not adequate
 to todays packet filters
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:21:10 -0500

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 This PR/151036 can be closed as tcpdump from HEAD has moved to a default
 snaplen of MAXIMUM_SNAPLEN which is '65535'.
 
 It would be nice to see the stable branches patched to a higher default
 snaplen level at this time but is not imperative to operations that it
 happens.
 
 
 ===== To use HEAD's libpcap & tcpdump on stable/8 r215190 =====
 
 cd /usr/src
 
 # libpcap 4.1.1 + pflogd & ipfilter fixup for libpcap.
 svn merge -c214517:214521 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214529 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214533 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214535:214536 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214539 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214834 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 
 # tcpdump 4.1.1
 svn merge -c214478 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214481:214482 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214530 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 svn merge -c214559:214560 svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head .
 
 
 - -- 
 
  jhell,v
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