PCAP_SET_DATALINK(3PCAP)PCAP_SET_DATALINK(3PCAP)NAMEpcap_set_datalink - set the link-layer header type to be used by a cap‐
ture device
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcap/pcap.h>
int pcap_set_datalink(pcap_t *p, int dlt);
DESCRIPTIONpcap_set_datalink() is used to set the current data link type of the
pcap descriptor to the type specified by dlt.
RETURN VALUEpcap_set_datalink() returns 0 on success and -1 on failure. If -1 is
returned, pcap_geterr() or pcap_perror() may be called with p as an
argument to fetch or display the error text.
SEE ALSOpcap(3PCAP), pcap_geterr(3PCAP)ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Availability │ system/library/libpcap │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ Uncommitted │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
NOTES
Source for libpcap is available at http://opensolaris.org and at
http://www.tcpdump.org. Documentation is available at
file:///usr/share/man, and http://www.tcpdump.org.
5 April 2008 PCAP_SET_DATALINK(3PCAP)