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Add LINKTYPE_ names to the pcap-linktype man page, and include the

values, as those are not platform-dependent and appear in the per-file
header of capture files.

Note that the "10MB" in DLT_EN10MB, and the "IEEE802" in "DLT_IEEE802",
are historical (so people don't think DLT_EN10MB is only for 10MB
Ethernet).

Don't describe the DLT_PFLOG header - it's in the format of a "struct
pfloghdr" on the OS on which the file was saved, which is OS-dependent
and release-dependent.

Refer to the pcap-linktype man page in the pcap-savefile man page.
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.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-linktype.manmisc.in,v 1.1 2008-10-21 07:33:01 guy Exp $
.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-linktype.manmisc.in,v 1.2 2008-10-24 07:33:50 guy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -20,22 +20,42 @@
.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
.\"
.TH PCAP-LINKTYPE @MAN_MISC_INFO@ "4 April 2008"
.TH PCAP-LINKTYPE @MAN_MISC_INFO@ "23 October 2008"
.SH NAME
pcap-linktype \- link-layer header types supported by libpcap
.SH DESCRIPTION
Libpcap supplies for a live capture or ``savefile'' value that indicates
the type of link-layer header at the beginning of the packets it
provides. This is not necessarily the type of link-layer header that
the packets being captured have on the network from which they're being
captured; for example, packets from an IEEE 802.11 network might be
provided by libpcap with Ethernet headers that the network adapter or
the network adapter driver generates from the 802.11 headers.
For a live capture or ``savefile'', libpcap supplies, as the return
value of the
.BR pcap_datalink (3PCAP)
routine, a value that indicates the type of link-layer header at the
beginning of the packets it provides. This is not necessarily the type
of link-layer header that the packets being captured have on the network
from which they're being captured; for example, packets from an IEEE
802.11 network might be provided by libpcap with Ethernet headers that
the network adapter or the network adapter driver generates from the
802.11 headers. The names for those values begin with
.BR DLT_ ,
so they are sometimes called "DLT_ values".
.PP
The link-layer header types supported by libpcap are:
The values stored in the link-layer header type field in the savefile
header are, in most but not all cases, the same as the values returned
by
.BR pcap_datalink() .
The names for those values begin with
.BR LINKTYPE_ .
.PP
The link-layer header types supported by libpcap are listed here. The
value corresponding to
.B LINKTYPE_
names are given; the value corresponding to
.B DLT_
values are, in some cases, platform dependent, and are not given;
applications should check for particular
.B DLT_
values by name.
.RS 5
.TP 5
.B DLT_NULL
.BR DLT_NULL ", " LINKTYPE_NULL = 0
BSD loopback encapsulation; the link layer header is a 4-byte field, in
.I host
byte order, containing a PF_ value from
@ -52,16 +72,24 @@ values are
.I not
necessarily those of the machine reading the capture file.
.TP 5
.B DLT_EN10MB
Ethernet (10Mb, 100Mb, 1000Mb, and up)
.BR DLT_EN10MB ", " LINKTYPE_ETHERNET = 1
Ethernet (10Mb, 100Mb, 1000Mb, and up); the
.B 10MB
in the
.B DLT_
name is historical.
.TP 5
.B DLT_IEEE802
IEEE 802.5 Token Ring
.BR DLT_IEEE802 ", " LINKTYPE_TOKEN_RING = 6
IEEE 802.5 Token Ring; the
.B IEEE802
in the
.B DLT_
name is historical.
.TP 5
.B DLT_ARCNET
.BR DLT_ARCNET ", " LINKTYPE_ARCNET = 7
ARCNET
.TP 5
.B DLT_SLIP
.BR DLT_SLIP ", " LINKTYPE_SLIP = 8
SLIP; the link layer header contains, in order:
.RS 10
.LP
@ -93,40 +121,40 @@ COMPRESSED_TCP, the compressed TCP/IP datagram header;
for a total of 16 bytes; the uncompressed IP datagram follows the header.
.RE
.TP 5
.B DLT_PPP
.BR DLT_PPP ", " LINKTYPE_PPP = 9
PPP; if the first 2 bytes are 0xff and 0x03, it's PPP in HDLC-like
framing, with the PPP header following those two bytes, otherwise it's
PPP without framing, and the packet begins with the PPP header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_FDDI
.BR DLT_FDDI ", " LINKTYPE_FDDI = 10
FDDI
.TP 5
.B DLT_ATM_RFC1483
.BR DLT_ATM_RFC1483 ", " LINKTYPE_ATM_RFC1483 = 100
RFC 1483 LLC/SNAP-encapsulated ATM; the packet begins with an IEEE 802.2
LLC header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_RAW
.BR DLT_RAW ", " LINKTYPE_RAW = 101
raw IP; the packet begins with an IP header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_PPP_SERIAL
.BR DLT_PPP_SERIAL ", " LINKTYPE_PPP_HDLC = 50
PPP in HDLC-like framing, as per RFC 1662, or Cisco PPP with HDLC
framing, as per section 4.3.1 of RFC 1547; the first byte will be 0xFF
for PPP in HDLC-like framing, and will be 0x0F or 0x8F for Cisco PPP
with HDLC framing.
.TP 5
.B DLT_PPP_ETHER
.BR DLT_PPP_ETHER ", " LINKTYPE_PPP_ETHER = 51
PPPoE; the packet begins with a PPPoE header, as per RFC 2516.
.TP 5
.B DLT_C_HDLC
.BR DLT_C_HDLC ", " LINKTYPE_C_HDLC = 104
Cisco PPP with HDLC framing, as per section 4.3.1 of RFC 1547.
.TP 5
.B DLT_IEEE802_11
.BR DLT_IEEE802_11 ", " LINKTYPE_IEEE802_11 = 105
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN
.TP 5
.B DLT_FRELAY
.BR DLT_FRELAY ", " LINKTYPE_FRELAY = 107
Frame Relay
.TP 5
.B DLT_LOOP
.BR DLT_LOOP ", " LINKTYPE_LOOP = 108
OpenBSD loopback encapsulation; the link layer header is a 4-byte field, in
.I network
byte order, containing a PF_ value from OpenBSD's
@ -137,7 +165,7 @@ Note that, if a ``savefile'' is being read, those PF_ values are
.I not
necessarily those of the machine reading the capture file.
.TP 5
.B DLT_LINUX_SLL
.BR DLT_LINUX_SLL ", " LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL = 113
Linux "cooked" capture encapsulation; the link layer header contains, in
order:
.RS 10
@ -175,82 +203,25 @@ order, or containing 1 for Novell 802.3 frames without an 802.2 LLC
header or 4 for frames beginning with an 802.2 LLC header.
.RE
.TP 5
.B DLT_LTALK
.BR DLT_LTALK ", " LINKTYPE_LTALK = 104
Apple LocalTalk; the packet begins with an AppleTalk LLAP header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_PFLOG
OpenBSD pflog; the link layer header contains, in order:
.RS 10
.LP
a 1-byte header length, in host byte order;
.LP
a 4-byte PF_ value, in host byte order;
.LP
a 2-byte action code, in network byte order, which is one of:
.RS 5
.BR DLT_PFLOG ", " LINKTYPE_PFLOG = 117
OpenBSD pflog; the link layer header contains a
.B "struct pfloghdr"
structure, as defined by the host on which the file was saved. (This
differs from operating system to operating system and release to
release; there is nothing in the file to indicate what the layout of
that structure is.)
.TP 5
0
passed
.TP 5
1
dropped
.TP 5
2
scrubbed
.RE
.LP
a 2-byte reason code, in network byte order, which is one of:
.RS 5
.TP 5
0
match
.TP 5
1
bad offset
.TP 5
2
fragment
.TP 5
3
short
.TP 5
4
normalize
.TP 5
5
memory
.RE
.LP
a 16-character interface name;
.LP
a 16-character ruleset name (only meaningful if subrule is set);
.LP
a 4-byte rule number, in network byte order;
.LP
a 4-byte subrule number, in network byte order;
.LP
a 1-byte direction, in network byte order, which is one of:
.RS 5
.TP 5
0
incoming or outgoing
.TP 5
1
incoming
.TP 5
2
outgoing
.RE
.RE
.TP 5
.B DLT_PRISM_HEADER
.BR DLT_PRISM_HEADER ", " LINKTYPE_PRISM_HEADER = 119
Prism monitor mode information followed by an 802.11 header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_IP_OVER_FC
.BR DLT_IP_OVER_FC ", " LINKTYPE_IP_OVER_FC = 122
RFC 2625 IP-over-Fibre Channel, with the link-layer header being the
Network_Header as described in that RFC.
.TP 5
.B DLT_SUNATM
.BR DLT_SUNATM ", " LINKTYPE_SUNATM = 123
SunATM devices; the link layer header contains, in order:
.RS 10
.LP
@ -287,23 +258,25 @@ a 1-byte VPI value;
a 2-byte VCI field, in network byte order.
.RE
.TP 5
.B DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO
.BR DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO ", " LINKTYPE_IEEE802_11_RADIO = 127
link-layer information followed by an 802.11 header - see
http://www.shaftnet.org/~pizza/software/capturefrm.txt for a description
of the link-layer information.
.TP 5
.B DLT_ARCNET_LINUX
.BR DLT_ARCNET_LINUX ", " LINKTYPE_ARCNET_LINUX = 129
ARCNET, with no exception frames, reassembled packets rather than raw
frames, and an extra 16-bit offset field between the destination host
and type bytes.
.TP 5
.B DLT_LINUX_IRDA
.BR DLT_LINUX_IRDA ", " LINKTYPE_LINUX_IRDA = 144
Linux-IrDA packets, with a
.B DLT_LINUX_SLL
header followed by the IrLAP header.
.TP 5
.B DLT_LINUX_LAPD
.BR DLT_LINUX_LAPD ", " LINKTYPE_LINUX_LAPD = 177
LAPD (Q.921) frames, with a
.B DLT_LINUX_SLL
header captured via vISDN.
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
pcap_datalink(3PCAP)

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'\" t
.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-savefile.manfile.in,v 1.1 2008-10-23 05:56:59 guy Exp $
.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-savefile.manfile.in,v 1.2 2008-10-24 07:33:50 guy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ bytes of a packet longer than
bytes will be saved in the capture.
.IP
a 4-byte number giving the link-layer header type for packets in the
capture.
capture; see
.BR pcap-linktype (@MAN_MISC_INFO@)
for the
.B LINKTYPE_
values that can appear in this field.
.PP
Following the per-file header are zero or more packets; each packet
begins with a per-packet header, which is immediately followed by the
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The two lengths will be equal if the number of bytes of packet data are
less than or equal to the snapshot length.
.SH SEE ALSO
pcap(3PCAP)
pcap(3PCAP), pcap-linktype(@MAN_MISC_INFO@)