freebsd-skq/pcap-savefile.manfile.in
Rui Paulo e89167f07a Update libpcap to 1.1.1.
Changes:

Thu.    April 1, 2010.  guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.1.1 libpcap release
        Update CHANGES to reflect more of the changes in 1.1.0.
        Fix build on RHEL5.
        Fix shared library build on AIX.

Thu.    March 11, 2010.  ken@netfunctional.ca/guy@alum.mit.edu.
Summary for 1.1.0 libpcap release
        Add SocketCAN capture support
        Add Myricom SNF API support
        Update Endace DAG and ERF support
        Add support for shared libraries on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX
        Build, install, and un-install shared libraries by default;
          don't build/install shared libraries on platforms we don't support
        Fix building from a directory other than the source directory
        Fix compiler warnings and builds on some platforms
        Update config.guess and config.sub
        Support monitor mode on mac80211 devices on Linux
        Fix USB memory-mapped capturing on Linux; it requires a new DLT_
          value
        On Linux, scan /sys/class/net for devices if we have it; scan
          it, or /proc/net/dev if we don't have /sys/class/net, even if
          we have getifaddrs(), as it'll find interfaces with no
          addresses
        Add limited support for reading pcap-ng files
        Fix BPF driver-loading error handling on AIX
        Support getting the full-length interface description on FreeBSD
        In the lexical analyzer, free up any addrinfo structure we got back
          from getaddrinfo().
        Add support for BPF and libdlpi in OpenSolaris (and SXCE)
        Hyphenate "link-layer" everywhere
        Add /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon to the list of usbmon locations
        In pcap_read_linux_mmap(), if there are no frames available, call
          poll() even if we're in non-blocking mode, so we pick up
          errors, and check for the errors in question.
        Note that poll() works on BPF devices is Snow Leopard
        If an ENXIO or ENETDOWN is received, it may mean the device has
          gone away.  Deal with it.
        For BPF, raise the default capture buffer size to from 32k to 512k
        Support ps_ifdrop on Linux
        Added a bunch of #ifdef directives to make wpcap.dll (WinPcap) compile
         under cygwin.
        Changes to Linux mmapped captures.
        Fix bug where create_ring would fail for particular snaplen and
          buffer size combinations
        Update pcap-config so that it handles libpcap requiring
          additional libraries
        Add workaround for threadsafeness on Windows
        Add missing mapping for DLT_ENC <-> LINKTYPE_ENC
        DLT: Add DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN
        DLT: Add Solaris ipnet
        Don't check for DLT_IPNET if it's not defined
        Add link-layer types for Fibre Channel FC-2
        Add link-layer types for Wireless HART
        Add link-layer types for AOS
        Add link-layer types for DECT
        Autoconf fixes (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Tru64 cleanups)
        Install headers unconditionally, and include vlan.h/bluetooth.h if
          enabled
        Autoconf fixes+cleanup
        Support enabling/disabling bluetooth (--{en,dis}able-bluetooth)
        Support disabling SITA support (--without-sita)
        Return -1 on failure to create packet ring (if supported but
          creation failed)
        Fix handling of 'any' device, so that it can be opened, and no longer
          attempt to open it in Monitor mode
        Add support for snapshot length for USB Memory-Mapped Interface
        Fix configure and build on recent Linux kernels
        Fix memory-mapped Linux capture to support pcap_next() and
          pcap_next_ex()
        Fixes for Linux USB capture
        DLT: Add DLT_LINUX_EVDEV
        DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_UM
        DLT: Add DLT_GSMTAP_ABIS
2010-10-28 16:22:13 +00:00

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.TH PCAP-SAVEFILE @MAN_FILE_FORMATS@ "21 October 2008"
.SH NAME
pcap-savefile \- libpcap savefile format
.SH DESCRIPTION
NOTE: applications and libraries should, if possible, use libpcap to
read savefiles, rather than having their own code to read savefiles.
If, in the future, a new file format is supported by libpcap,
applications and libraries using libpcap to read savefiles will be able
to read the new format of savefiles, but applications and libraries
using their own code to read savefiles will have to be changed to
support the new file format.
.PP
``Savefiles'' read and written by libpcap and applications using libpcap
start with a per-file header. The format of the per-file header is:
.RS
.TS
box;
c s
c | c
c s.
Magic number
_
Major version Minor version
_
Time zone offset
_
Time stamp accuracy
_
Snapshot length
_
Link-layer header type
.TE
.RE
.PP
All fields in the per-file header are in the byte order of the host
writing the file. The first field in the per-file header is a 4-byte
magic number, with the value 0xa1b2c3d4. The magic number, when read by
a host with the same byte order as the host that wrote the file, will
have the value 0xa1b2c3d4, and, when read by a host with the opposite
byte order as the host that wrote the file, will have the value
0xd4c3b2a1. That allows software reading the file to determine whether
the byte order of the host that wrote the file is the same as the byte
order of the host on which the file is being read, and thus whether the
values in the per-file and per-packet headers need to be byte-swapped.
.PP
Following this are:
.IP
A 2-byte file format major version number; the current version number is
2.
.IP
A 2-byte file format minor version number; the current version number is
4.
.IP
A 4-byte time zone offset; this is always 0.
.IP
A 4-byte number giving the accuracy of time stamps in the file; this is
always 0.
.IP
A 4-byte number giving the "snapshot length" of the capture; packets
longer than the snapshot length are truncated to the snapshot length, so
that, if the snapshot length is
.IR N ,
only the first
.I N
bytes of a packet longer than
.I N
bytes will be saved in the capture.
.IP
a 4-byte number giving the link-layer header type for packets in the
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
raw packet data. The format of the per-packet header is:
.RS
.TS
box;
c.
Time stamp, seconds value
_
Time stamp, microseconds value
_
Length of captured packet data
_
Un-truncated length of the packet data
.TE
.RE
.PP
All fields in the per-packet header are in the byte order of the host
writing the file. The per-packet header begins with a time stamp giving
the approximate time the packet was captured; the time stamp consists of
a 4-byte value, giving the time in seconds since January 1, 1970,
00:00:00 UTC, followed by a 4-byte value, giving the time in
microseconds since that second. Following that are a 4-byte value
giving the number of bytes of captured data that follow the per-packet
header and a 4-byte value giving the number of bytes that would have
been present had the packet not been truncated by the snapshot length.
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-linktype(@MAN_MISC_INFO@)