Re: Tcpdump Not Showing Correct Ethernet Addresses

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 14:01:10 EST

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    Hello!

    > I just noticed recently that (sometimes) tcpdump isn't giving me the
    > correct ethernet addresses (when given the -e paramter):

    Option -R returns tcpdump to its old behaviour.

    By default this tcpdump does not see MAC level headers,
    which allows it to work on all the kinds of interfaces equally.
    But it has to emulate them loosely, when you ask -e, replacing
    unknown information with 0s.

    Alexey Kuznetsov

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