Re: mainstream tcpdump ipv6 ?

[Remco van de Meent <remco@vandemeent.net>]

Scott Laird wrote:
> > Upon instantiating a telnet connection over an ipv6 link, I get
> > output like this:
> > 
> > 17:51:53.904668 0:80:48:cd:90:6f 0:80:48:cd:90:b ip6 94: 
> >                          6000 0000 0028 0640 2001 0610 1800 8484
> >                          0000 0000 e686 0001 2001 0610 1800 8484
> >                          0000 0000 e686 0002 0a3f 0017 0fe2 a4e9
> >                          0000 0000 a002
> > 
> 
> Hmm.  What happens if you increase the packet snapshot size to ~100
> bytes or so using -s?  I suspect that you lost the end of the TCP
> header in this case, so tcpdump was forced to dump the raw packet
> data.

Setting the snapshot size higher doesn't solve the problem (for me),
unfortunately...


cheers,
Remco.