Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP performance (was: Yet more fun)
To: None <mlyle@recourse.net>
From: Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/31/2001 13:18:36
> 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..

You'd want to use a third system to capture the traffic.

Since you'd probably want to test fdx operation, you'd have to
set up one of the ports on the cisco switch as a monitor port,
mirroring all the traffic on a given vlan out that port, and put
the capture system on that port.

Regards,

- H=E5vard