On 10/25/23 11:43, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 01:22:08AM +0200, Frode Nordahl wrote:
>> Depending on system configuration, executing tcpdump without the
>> -n parameter, may prolong the execution time for tcpdump while it
>> attempts name resolution.
>>
>> This delay may in turn lead to test failures due to contents of
>> tables to check being evicted.
>>
>> We recently started to see this problem with the
>> "conntrack -IPv6 ICMP6 Related with SNAT" test.
>>
>> For consistency, this patch adds the -n parameter to all tcpdump
>> calls in system-traffic.at.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks Frode,
> 
> I think that in general tcpdump -n is good practice unless lookup
> is really needed.
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>

Thanks, Frode and Simon!

Applied and backported down to 2.17, since it's a test fix.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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