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  21. .TH PCAP-LINKTYPE @MAN_MISC_INFO@ "7 April 2014"
  22. .SH NAME
  23. pcap-linktype \- link-layer header types supported by libpcap
  24. .SH DESCRIPTION
  25. For a live capture or ``savefile'', libpcap supplies, as the return
  26. value of the
  27. .BR pcap_datalink (3PCAP)
  28. routine, a value that indicates the type of link-layer header at the
  29. beginning of the packets it provides. This is not necessarily the type
  30. of link-layer header that the packets being captured have on the network
  31. from which they're being captured; for example, packets from an IEEE
  32. 802.11 network might be provided by libpcap with Ethernet headers that
  33. the network adapter or the network adapter driver generates from the
  34. 802.11 headers. The names for those values begin with
  35. .BR DLT_ ,
  36. so they are sometimes called "DLT_ values".
  37. .PP
  38. The values stored in the link-layer header type field in the savefile
  39. header are, in most but not all cases, the same as the values returned
  40. by
  41. .BR pcap_datalink() .
  42. The names for those values begin with
  43. .BR LINKTYPE_ .
  44. .PP
  45. The link-layer header types supported by libpcap are described at
  46. https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html.
  47. .SH SEE ALSO
  48. pcap_datalink(3PCAP)