I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

[Petri Helenius]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:

>ports would seem to be an acceptable halfway house, though, for people who
>want to use pcap/tcpdump of a more recent vintage, than has been determined
>to be suitable for a FreeBSD release. does it not?
>  
>
On general case, I agree with you. However libpcap does not change that 
often,
tcpdump changes somewhat more often but the major issue here is that pcap
is in direct conflict of FreeBSD release kernel code by breaking the
bpf_bufsize and bpf_maxbufsize tunables from functioning.

Pete