James Kilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We've installed some FreeBSD machines as Gigabit sniffers, and I'm > wondering if there are any things I can tweak (e.g., buffer size) to help > TCPDUMP capture better (we often see packets dropped by the kernel). > > Any advice would be appreciated.
When using tethereal to do captures, I found that nicing the capture process reduced the incidence of dropped packets to 0. Not exactly the same circumstance, but I would guess that tcpdump would respond simularly. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
