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Subject: TCPDUMP performance
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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.

Thanks,
James

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