how do you limit the number of ngrep results?

Question

There appears to be no way to do this from the man page. When I run ngrep on a port that's serving continuous traffic, I get a ton of results streaming. I want to limit to the number of results such a what can be done with grep -m.

Answer 1

You can do ngrep -n which only matches "x" total packets, where x is your input.