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what could cause tshark to drop packets?

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Hi,

I did a tshark capture on one of my DELL server. The output was showing as:

Capturing on "local connection" 1786614 142665 packets dropped

It had 7% packet drop, what might be the cause? Too much traffic?

thanks!

asked 29 Jul '14, 00:34

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Yes, usually the reason is too much traffic. You might want to try capturing with dumpcap to see if you can reduce the drop rate.

answered 29 Jul '14, 00:53

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