[tcpdump-workers] Packet loss

[Phil Wood]

Are you running tcpdump with name lookup turned on?  That will cause
you to lose almost more packets than there are packets to lose!

Run tcpdump with the -n flag and -w to a file.  This avoids delays in
getting to read packets off the wire, which causes the kernel to drop
packets before your program can get back to read them.

Phil
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