From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 14:53:51 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 24CE737B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.hd.intel.com (hdfdns02.hd.intel.com [192.52.58.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553B943E3B for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pavan.balaji@intel.com) Received: from fmsmsxvs041.fm.intel.com (fmsmsxvs041.fm.intel.com [132.233.42.126]) by mail2.hd.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: solo.mc,v 1.42 2002/05/23 22:21:11 root Exp $) with SMTP id g77Lrl419685 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:53:47 GMT Received: from FMSMSX017.fm.intel.com ([132.233.42.196]) by fmsmsxvs041.fm.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.2.11) with SMTP id M2002080714531319828 ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 14:53:14 -0700 Received: by fmsmsx017.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3DW1QWM4>; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:44 -0700 Message-ID: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD69A4@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com> From: "Balaji, Pavan" To: "'Patrick Thomas'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tcpdump and dropped packet statistics Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:53:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 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 > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message