From: fenner <fenner>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:06:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that -x prints padding too.
X-Git-Tag: tcpdump-3.8-bp~458
X-Git-Url: https://git.tcpdump.org/tcpdump/commitdiff_plain/3accac7c0624686a3bdb58237baf1076086a5a45

Document that -x prints padding too.
---

diff --git a/tcpdump.1 b/tcpdump.1
index 14e6c3ba..c8c7bfdc 100644
--- a/tcpdump.1
+++ b/tcpdump.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.121 2002-06-16 21:51:31 guy Exp $ (LBL)
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.122 2002-06-24 21:06:23 fenner Exp $ (LBL)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -406,7 +406,10 @@ Standard output is used if \fIfile\fR is ``-''.
 Print each packet (minus its link level header) in hex.
 The smaller of the entire packet or
 .I snaplen
-bytes will be printed.
+bytes will be printed.  Note that this is the entire link-layer
+packet, so for link layers that pad (e.g. Ethernet), the padding bytes
+will also be printed when the higher layer packet is shorter than the
+required padding.
 .TP
 .B \-X
 When printing hex, print ascii too.