PCAP-LINKTYPE(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual PCAP-LINKTYPE(7)
NAME
pcap-linktype - link-layer header types supported by libpcap
DESCRIPTION
For a live capture or ``savefile'', libpcap supplies, as the return
value of the 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 DLT_, so they are sometimes called "DLT_ values".
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 pcap_datalink(). The names for those values begin with LINKTYPE_.
The link-layer header types supported by libpcap are described at
https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html .
SEE ALSO
pcap(3PCAP)
6 April 2020 PCAP-LINKTYPE(7)
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