Re: Tcpdump dropping packets

2006-06-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: Check sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize, but also do a search on this because there may be a patch needed for PCAP in order for buffers larger than 32K to actually work. [1] Hmmm sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl: unknown oid 'debug.bpf_bufsize' This sys

Re: Tcpdump dropping packets

2006-06-08 Thread Paul Schmehl
Chuck Swiger wrote: Check sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize, but also do a search on this because there may be a patch needed for PCAP in order for buffers larger than 32K to actually work. [1] Hmmm sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize sysctl: unknown oid 'debug.bpf_bufsize' sysctl -a | grep bufsize net.b

Re: Tcpdump dropping packets

2006-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm fiddling around with ntop, but, after an initial packet capture, it doesn't capture any more traffic. It claims that libpcap is dropping all the packets. If I run tcpdump like this: tcpdump -i I get this: 15 packets captured 51104 packets received by filter 50288 p