http://loopkid.net/articles/2008/06/25/tcpdump-packets-dropped-by-kernel en-us 40 sad songs make me happy <p>tcpdump is a really nice tool, but it may render useless with it&#8217;s default settings.</p> <pre><code>$ sudo tcpdump -i en1 </code></pre> <p>In my case led to</p> <pre><code>80 packets captured 7705 packets received by filter 6794 packets dropped by kernel </code></pre> <p>To solve the issue I had to turn off address translation.</p> <pre><code>$ sudo tcpdump -i en1 -n </code></pre> <p>Now the results look as expected.</p> <pre><code>6941 packets captured 7011 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel </code></pre> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:49:00 +0200 urn:uuid:169ab5cb-2ba5-4fc8-952d-04ee4782e17b Stefan http://loopkid.net/articles/2008/06/25/tcpdump-packets-dropped-by-kernel English Mac OS X Linux http://loopkid.net/articles/trackback/8350