From Gisle Vanem:

[tcpdump] / tcpdump.1

diff --git a/tcpdump.1 b/tcpdump.1
index 80645c97b7d207db9bfa3e24229ae135ecadb5ca..09bb567e0219e7642a5046b3cdc57a87571f433e 100644 (file)
--- a/tcpdump.1
+++ b/tcpdump.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.155 2004-01-07 22:50:40 guy Exp $ (LBL)
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.156 2004-01-15 19:53:49 guy Exp $ (LBL)
 .\"
 .\"    $NetBSD: tcpdump.8,v 1.9 2003/03/31 00:18:17 perry Exp $
 .\"
@@ -486,11 +486,14 @@ that lacks the
 function.
 .TP
 .B \-v
-(Slightly more) verbose output.
+When parsing and printing, produce (slightly more) verbose output.
 For example, the time to live,
 identification, total length and options in an IP packet are printed.
 Also enables additional packet integrity checks such as verifying the
 IP and ICMP header checksum.
+When writing to a file with the
+.B \-w
+option, report, every 10 seconds, the number of packets captured.
 .TP
 .B \-vv
 Even more verbose output.