Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:44:46 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT?] tcpdump overhead Message-ID: <20080310164418.D5681@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200803101001.58362.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> References: <200803101001.58362.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br>
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> > I am writing a final paper for a PG course and I need to take precise > measurements on network performance. I gonna be doing lots of packet dumps > and I would like to know you guys' opinion on how much of tcpdump overhead > (if meaningful for these measurements) I should take into account. > > If there are any readings on the subject you could point me to... no idea but small for sure. it would rather cause tcpdump to not catch all packets that network performance drop.
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