From: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:40:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Note that interfaces may have numerical names.
X-Git-Tag: tcpdump-4.9.0-bp~204
X-Git-Url: https://git.tcpdump.org/tcpdump/commitdiff_plain/d4876278a77ed6576073cc6fd81d2ec43eb85733

Note that interfaces may have numerical names.

If N is a number, and is the name of an interface on the system, "-i N"
will now attempt to open that interface, not the Nth interface in the
list of interfaces.  See GitHub issue #522.
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diff --git a/tcpdump.1.in b/tcpdump.1.in
index 2de8daa4..f04a5793 100644
--- a/tcpdump.1.in
+++ b/tcpdump.1.in
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ If the
 flag is supported, an interface number as printed by that flag can be
 used as the
 .I interface
-argument.
+argument, if no interface on the system has that number as a name.
 .TP
 .B \-I
 .PD 0