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 > <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. ;) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
