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- .TH PCAP-LINKTYPE @MAN_MISC_INFO@ "7 April 2014"
- .SH NAME
- pcap-linktype \- link-layer header types supported by libpcap
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- For a live capture or ``savefile'', libpcap supplies, as the return
- value of the
- .BR 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
- .BR DLT_ ,
- so they are sometimes called "DLT_ values".
- .PP
- 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
- .BR pcap_datalink() .
- The names for those values begin with
- .BR LINKTYPE_ .
- .PP
- The link-layer header types supported by libpcap are described at
- https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- pcap_datalink(3PCAP)
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