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Add --overview and --no-print options to tcpdump #1033
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Add --overview and --no-print options to tcpdump #1033
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--overview: that prints an overview of the contents of the capture --no-print: suppress printing of individual packets
…option-master Add --overview and --no-print options
Update CHANGES, fix option numbering
Fix build errors
Thank you for preparing these changes. Please note that this prototype has a few significant issues. To an extent this is caused by trying to retrofit a detailed statistics feature into a code base that is not designed to produce such output. This would be much better done in a separate program that takes a pcap savefile as an input. In particular, please have a look at ipsumdump, which either already implements this type of statistics, or might be much easier to extend for that than tcpdump. |
Hi @infrastation, thank you for looking at this PR and for your feedback. I am currently evaluating ipsumdump to see if it meets our needs and if not, if we could extend it instead. Thank you for your suggestion. |
This PR adds the following command line options to tcpdump.
--overview: to print an overview of the contents of the capture
--no-print: to suppress printing of individual packets (useful with --overview)
The --overview option prints output that looks like the following. It can be used with either a live capture or a capture file (-r option).