[Dinkar Bhat <dbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2003, at 4:50 PM, Suhail Hussain wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot Mr. Harris. I use a simple  packet generator to send a 
> > controlled
> > number of TCP (IPv4) packets. But the number of packets I send is 
> > different
> > from the number of packets captured using Ethereal. I send 5000 
> > packets in a
> > burst of 200 packets each time.
> > When I use the filter and go and see the packet count in "Data in 
> > Filtered
> > PAckets" section, it shows 3595..there seems to be a packet loss 
> > somewhere.
>
>
> There is no guarantee that packets won't be dropped by the packet 
> capturing mechanism that Ethereal uses.  In *some* OSes, that 
> mechanism can report a count of dropped packets.


Does "Dropped Packets: 0" in the summary window really mean zero dropped 
packets, or is it just that the capture mechanism cannot report dropped 
packets on my OS but shows it as 0?

Thanks
Dinkar