provide short description of CAN sniffing tools

Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorsli...@googlemail.com>
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 Documentation/networking/can.txt |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

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   The format of the CAN error frame is briefly described in the Linux
   header file "include/linux/can/error.h".
 
+  3.5 analysing CAN frames
+
+  Several tools for this task are provided along with can-utils:
+
+  - candump
+  - cansniffer
+
+  These command line tools show received CAN frames and have various
+  filter options.
+
+  Wireshark provides support to capture the whole traffic. The CAN
+  frames are dissected into frame type, flags and data sections. It's
+  basic CAN support provides basis for high protocol analysing filters
+  like CANopen, DeviceNet etc.
+
 4. How to use Socket CAN
 ------------------------
 

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