Re: dropped packets in Perfmonitor

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Lawrence and I communicated offline. It looks like there may be several issues.

J

On Friday, December 3, 2010, Leon Ward <lward () sourcefire com> wrote:
> As a note, Mbps isn't anywhere near the the be-all and end-all of
> measuring effort. Take a look at the avg packet size, number of
> sessions, protocol mix, fragments, etc.
>
> I would take Joel up on his offer to look at your perfmon output, he
> may spot something else related.
>
> -L
>
> On 1 December 2010 18:15, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
> > Can you show us some results from the perfmon preprocessor?
> > J
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Lawrence R. Hughes, Sr.
> > <lhughes () safemedia com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It seems that when our Mbit per second increase, dropped packets decrease
> > > and when Mbit per second decrease we have a higher rate of dropped packets?
> > >
> > > Is there something we can tune to keep the dropped packets at 1% or less?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Larry
> > >
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