tcpdump errors on FreeBSD for mk-query-digest

• Ronald Bradford
• May 28, 2010

While I use this tcpdump command for MySQL query analysis with mk-query-digest , I found recently that it didn’t work on FreeBSD $ tcpdump -i bge0 port 3306 -s 65535 -x -n -q -tttt -c 5 tcpdump: syntax error It left me perplexed and reading the man page seemed to indicate my options were valid.