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#include <pcap/pcap.h>int pcap_datalink(pcap_t *p);
It must not be called on a pcap descriptor created by pcap_create(3) that has not yet been activated by pcap_activate(3) .
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 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.
7 April 2014 | PCAP_DATALINK (3) |
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