Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:02:56 +0300 From: "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: capturing packets on 250mb link Message-ID: <ad79ad6b0804280202n50832c0ex866cac2fdff525c5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4815919A.5070607@micom.mng.net> References: <48154EA2.6070105@micom.mng.net> <ad79ad6b0804280101t12ccc191g3d4fe3e4ff2a7427@mail.gmail.com> <4815919A.5070607@micom.mng.net>
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On 4/28/08, Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> wrote:
> Vlad,
>
>
> Vlad GALU wrote:
>
> > On 4/28/08, Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > What is the best way to capture packets on 250mb link?
> > > What kernel features/modules or tools (less CPU/RAM overhead) should I
> use?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Given your OS version, I'd say that setting the BPF buffer size to
> > around 1MB and setting the monitor flag on the capture interface would
> > give you very good results. In that combination we've been doing
> > packtet capture at gigabit speeds without packet loss.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks Vlad. So then it means something like following will work in our
> case:
>
> #sysctl net.bpf.bufsize: 1048576
> #ifconfig bge1 monitor up
> #tcpdump -i bge1 -s0 -w capture.log -C 2048 -W 100
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong here.
Yes, it should do the job. However I can't understand why you want
a snaplen of 0, as 68 should be the minimum to accomodate the
ethernet+ip+tcp/udp headers.
>
> thanks,
>
> Ganbold
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > > I have FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE machine (
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2822.51-MHz 686-class CPU),
> > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> > > 1GM RAM, ad2: 76319MB <Maxtor 6L080M0 BANC1G10> at ata1-master
> SATA150).
> > >
> > > #uname -an
> > > FreeBSD ng1.micom.mng.net 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #3: Sat Apr 26
> > > 14:08:06 ULAT 2008 tsgan@ng1.micom.mng.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NG
> i386
> > >
> > > #pciconf -lv|more
> > > ...
> > > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x1659103c chip=0x165914e4
> > > rev=0x11 hdr=0x00
> > > vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
> > > device = 'BCM5721 NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
> > > class = network
> > > subclass = ethernet
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Are there any considerations on hardware?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Ganbold
> > >
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