Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:39 -0700 From: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> To: "'Patrick Thomas'" <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tcpdump and dropped packet statistics Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD69A4@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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Yes. It is something you should care. It just means that there is a lot of
corruption of packets (from wherever you are transferring). I had this
problem a couple of months back, and it turned out that my NIC was screwed
up.
Pavan Balaji,
Intel Corporation
Email: pavan.balaji@intel.com
"Only the Paranoid Survive" -- Andy Grove
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Thomas [mailto:root@utility.clubscholarship.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:20 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: tcpdump and dropped packet statistics
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>
>
> 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.
>
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