From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 14:20:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2594837B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:20:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utility.clubscholarship.com (utility.clubscholarship.com [198.78.70.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE93243E5E for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by utility.clubscholarship.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g77LKP729872 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:20:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@utility.clubscholarship.com) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:20:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas To: Subject: tcpdump and dropped packet statistics Message-ID: <20020807141918.Q28830-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does it mean when you run tcpdump and you see this after hitting ctrl-C : 5702 packets received by filter 4395 packets dropped by kernel Is it just some nuance of tcpdump that I shouldn't care about, or is my system actually dropping network packets (and then I should care) ? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message