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Mysterious packet loss during capture
From: gkrames () gmx net
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:58:57 +0200
Hi all, I am fighting for a while now with occasional packet loss during capture in promiscous mode. Environment: Linux 2.6.27, 32 bit, NIC e1000e, 100MBit network with 4MBit/s actual traffic (4%), wireshark 1.2.2; the capturing PC has <5% CPU load and >1 GB free phys. memory). My test case captures 100K packets (using the -c) option. A random number of packets is dropped (about 20..2000) with ever run. tcpdump, dumpcap, tshark, and wireshark show this behaviour. Interestingly, tcpdump says "nn packets dropped by kernel". So this is most likely a kernel/network stack problem. Trials playing with some kernel sysctl parameters (increasing various buffer sizes, decreasing sheduler granularity and others) has not improved anything so far. ethtool -G eth0 rx-usecs 250 (or 125), limitting interrupts to 4000 or 8000 /sec, has reduced the packet loss but still it is there. Any ideas what else I could try? Also any hint would be appreciated how to find out why the kernel decides to drop some packets. Thanks, Gerfl -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Mysterious packet loss during capture gkrames (Oct 08)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Abhijit Bare (Oct 08)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture gkrames (Oct 09)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Tim.Poth (Oct 09)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture gkrames (Oct 09)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Gianluca Varenni (Oct 09)
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- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Stuart Kendrick (Oct 09)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Guy Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Mysterious packet loss during capture Abhijit Bare (Oct 08)