On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:15:54AM -0600, Robert Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:06:10AM +0100, John Angelmo wrote: > > I needed to do some tcpdump from my box on the rl0 interface. The IP was > > changed to one that dosn't match our network and I noticed that > > everything had a 3 min delay(both traffic in and out from the > > interface), my current build is from yesterday and the box didn't have > > any heavy load. As soon as I changed back to my standard IP everything > > worked fine, but still a 3 min delay seems odd. > > > > /John > tcpdump -ln > > -l kills buffered output, i.e. waiting for a large amount of data before > it starts writing
-l doesnt kill bufferd output, in contrary, it makes the output bufferd. -l Make stdout line buffered. Useful if you want to see the data while capturing it. E.g., ``tcpdump -l | tee dat'' or ``tcpdump -l > dat & tail -f dat''. The dely you are probably noticing is because of resolving problems , try -n Regards, Joris > > -n tells us not do lookup each ip.. > > should help > > rob > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message