Re: Dropped packets - tcpdump

Hi...

My machine is a DELL PowerEdge 2500 with 2 CPU PIII 1 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 250
GB HD SCSI... This configuration is slow?

One more question, the fact that tcpdump drop the packets don't imply
that theese packets are being dropped also in the comunication?

[]s

Cloves

Em Qua, 2008-02-06 às 19:42 +0100, Svein Ove Aas escreveu:
> On Feb 6, 2008 1:07 PM, Cloves Pereira Costa Jr
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all...
> >
> > Anyone knows if there is some way to log the dropped packets in tcpdump?
> > I already search in google for it but didn't find anything...
> 
> The reason they're dropped in the first place is that your system is
> too slow to do.. whatever you're doing with them, in realtime, and not
> dropping packets would result in an infinitely growing buffer.
> 
> I don't know how you might configure the size of that buffer (a larger
> one /would/ quite possibly help), but if you dump to disk using the -w
> (and -s 0?) parameter, that might help.
> 
> Otherwise, get a faster machine. ;)
>