In message <20010330155805.A13816@recourse.net>Michael Lyle writes:

>We have a Cisco 2924XL inbetween the two NetBSD boxes.  It's what 
>we're using for performance measurement.  I'm not sure we'd be able
>to capture the traffic at that kind of data rate with stock libpcap/
>tcpdump on tiny hardware like this.. and the actual observation could
>mess up the results further.  However-- if that is interesting I can
>try and get you guys a trace.

Personally, I find a 120 Mhz Pentium is more than adequate; use a hub
to hook up a passive monitor machine on the same port as one or other
"real" machine.


However, the first step is to get rid of the performance bug
introduced with IPv6.