|
HTML rendering created 2025-02-02 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. |
|
|
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
|
|
|
PCAP_DATALINK(3PCAP) PCAP_DATALINK(3PCAP)
pcap_datalink - get the link-layer header type
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
int pcap_datalink(pcap_t *p);
pcap_datalink() returns the link-layer header type for the live
capture or ``savefile'' specified by p.
It must not be called on a pcap descriptor created by
pcap_create(3PCAP) that has not yet been activated by
pcap_activate(3PCAP).
https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html lists the values
pcap_datalink() can return and describes the packet formats that
correspond to those values.
Do NOT assume that the packets for a given capture or ``savefile``
will have any given link-layer header type, such as DLT_EN10MB for
Ethernet. For example, the "any" device on Linux will have a
link-layer header type of DLT_LINUX_SLL or DLT_LINUX_SLL2 even if
all devices on the system at the time the "any" device is opened
have some other data link type, such as DLT_EN10MB for Ethernet.
pcap_datalink() returns the link-layer header type on success and
PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED if called on a capture handle that has
been created but not activated.
pcap(3PCAP), pcap_datalink_val_to_name(3PCAP),
pcap_set_datalink(3PCAP), pcap_list_datalinks(3PCAP),
pcap-linktype(7)
This page is part of the libpcap (packet capture library) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://www.tcpdump.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this
manual page, see ⟨http://www.tcpdump.org/#patches⟩. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap.git⟩ on 2025-02-02.
(At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found
in the repository was 2025-01-31.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
7 April 2014 PCAP_DATALINK(3PCAP)
|
HTML rendering created 2025-02-02 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. |
|