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Old 05-28-2009
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Originally Posted by radiatejava View Post
[...]Both the commands were run for 10 secs. In fact I ran the command with -w option for 15 secs but still the captured packets in the dump are are just 6 compared to 26 packets without the file save option. Any reason ? What I can I do to capture all ?

-Satish
Sounds like some bottleneck in the system, perhaps a problem with the buffers. Try
Code:
# tcpdump -l port 22 | tee tdump.dat
instead. Using a pipe should bring relief.