Re: Dropped packets - tcpdump

["Svein Ove Aas" <svein.ove@xxxxxx>]

On Feb 6, 2008 1:07 PM, Cloves Pereira Costa Jr
<cloves.costa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. ;)

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