Re: Dropped packets - tcpdump

["Svein Ove Aas" <sveina@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 6, 2008 8:03 PM, Cloves Pereira Costa Jr
<cloves.costa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
For some purposes, yes. How many packets a second were you handling,
and how? How large were they/how many kilobytes/second? SSH session,
perhaps?


> One more question, the fact that tcpdump drop the packets don't imply
> that theese packets are being dropped also in the comunication?
>
It doesn't imply anything either way. They may be being dropped, or
not, depending on the actual system load and interface capacity;
tcpdump uses a lot more CPU time than the normal path.
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