On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:20 PM, M. V. wrote: > as i mentioned in my previous mail, (with the title: "HUGE packet-drop") i'm > having problem trying to dump gigabit traffic on harddisk with tcpdump on > Debian5.0. i tried almost everything but got no success.
Did you try to check whether the memory-mapped "tpacket" mechanism was being used by libpcap? > From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <h...@comx.dk> > Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] HUGE packet-drop > Date: January 31, 2011 10:56:22 AM PST > To: tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org ... > The easiest way to see if you are using the MMAPed version is to look in: > /proc/net/ptype > > Your are using the MMAP version if the Function "tpacket_rcv" is listed (while > you perform a tcpdump). Notice the "t" in front of "packet_rcv", if the "t" is > missing, then you are using the old/normal version. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.