Re: tcpdump in testing busted?

[ard@kwaak.net (Ard van Breemen)]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:06:48AM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Oops, terribly sorry all.  I did mean to include another line.
> Here's a simpler example:
> 
> # tcpdump port ssh
> tcpdump: parse error
ard@c24574:/net/home/ard$ sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump port ssh
tcpdump: listening on eth0

Version:
ii  tcpdump   3.6.2-2  A powerful tool for network monitoring and data ac
ii  libpcap0  0.6.2-2  System interface for user-level packet capture.

All your other examples do work.

This shows it *is* a tcpdump error message:
ard@c24574:/net/home/ard$ sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump blup
tcpdump: parse error

But why?
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