Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 2132] man pages refer to tcpdump(8) which isn't available
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2132
--- Comment #2 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-04-08 19:24:24 PDT ---
Not that tcpdump(8) - or tcpdump(1), for that matter - tells you about capture
filters, either, at least on some UN*Xes:
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.6.3
BuildVersion: 10D573
$ man tcpdump
TCPDUMP(1) TCPDUMP(1)
NAME
tcpdump - dump traffic on a network
SYNOPSIS
tcpdump [ -AdDefgIKlLnNOpqRStuUvxX ] [ -B buffer_size ] [ -c count ]
[ -C file_size ] [ -G rotate_seconds ] [ -F file ]
[ -i interface ] [ -m module ] [ -M secret ]
[ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ]
[ -W filecount ]
[ -E spi@ipaddr algo:secret,... ]
[ -y datalinktype ] [ -z postrotate-command ] [ -Z user ]
[ expression ]
...
expression
selects which packets will be dumped. If no expression is
given, all packets on the net will be dumped. Otherwise, only
packets for which expression is `true' will be dumped.
For the expression syntax, see pcap-filter(4).
Expression arguments can be passed to tcpdump as either a single
argument or as multiple arguments, whichever is more convenient.
Generally, if the expression contains Shell metacharacters, it
is easier to pass it as a single, quoted argument. Multiple
arguments are concatenated with spaces before being parsed.
...
$ man pcap-filter
PCAP-FILTER(7) PCAP-FILTER(7)
NAME
pcap-filter - packet filter syntax
DESCRIPTION
pcap_compile() is used to compile a string into a filter program. The
resulting filter program can then be applied to some stream of packets
to determine which packets will be supplied to pcap_loop(), pcap_dis-
patch(), pcap_next(), or pcap_next_ex().
The filter expression consists of one or more primitives. Primitives
usually consist of an id (name or number) preceded by one or more qual-
ifiers. There are three different kinds of qualifier:
...
Any OS that's picked up libpcap 1.x and tcpdump 4.x will work that way; that
includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, at least some newer versions of some Linux
distribtutions, and, I think, recent versions of FreeBSD.
(And, yes, the difference in section numbers for pcap-filter in the two man
pages is a tcpdump bug; I'll fix it).
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