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jack_39736
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Nov 20, 2009

tcpdump not showing all data

I have a test VIP that load balances to a single web server which I can connect to with no problem over port 80...I'm running version 10.0.1.     I turned up tcpdump to watch the traffic oo...
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Nov 23, 2009
I just checked and I"m not running PVA on the interface however, I just reread this portion of a previous post which might explain my symbtoms:

 

 

"Running tcpdump on a switch interface is rate-limited to 200 packets per second. Therefore, if you run tcpdump on an interface that is processing more than 200 packets per second, the captured tcpdump file will not include all of the packets."

 

 

I'm not sure if I'm exceeding 200pps....is there a command that can tell me that?

 

 

thanks

 

 

jack