Hi there,
I am currently testing the Ethereal on the Linux machine to know the limit
of Ethereal (I am using tethereal). At certain level I could see that
Ethereal (or maybe on the kernel level) discards some packets. When we
reached 2.0 Mbyte per second (I use gkrellm on the source machine), that's
when I saw that it discards lots of packets. I am using Pentium 4 1.7 Ghz
with 512 Mb SDRAM 133 Mhz. The network card is 3COM Fast EtherLink 10/100.
Maybe I have done something wrong (or my number is wrong) somewhere, but
My questions are :
* Has anybody done a benchmark already for Ethereal.
* If yes what machine are you using (CPU speed, RAM, OS, etc.) and
what is the peak limit for the ethereal before it discards packets.
* Anybody could tell me what I could do to tweak Linux to make it runs
faster (a part from killing all those unnecessaries processes) or maybe a
site that I could visit.
Any hints would be welcomed. Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Syari Mujahid