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From: Subba Rao (subba9home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 15:48:54 CDT

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    Hi

    I am running OpenBSD 2.8. The system has Tcpdump version 3.4.0 along with
    libpcap version 0.5

    After running tcpdump for a while on an active network (Linux, OpenBSD and NT),
    I interrupted and saw the following output at the end,

            83190 packets received by filter
            81285 packets dropped by kernel

    Why are the packets being dropped by the kernel? The ethernet adapter is from
    3Com. I was told that OpenBSD NE2000 driver drop packets. The 3Com adapter
    works great. Does this mean that I cannot analyze all the traffic on the
    network?

    Any information is appreciated.

    TIA. 

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    Subba Rao
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