Kernel dropped packet analysis
Found a simple method to check for all the packets dropped by kernel.
First you need to install dropwatch with
dnf install dropwatch
and details of the package
- Name : dropwatch
- Arch : x86_64
- Epoch : 0
- Version : 1.4
- Release : 13.fc24
- Size : 27 k
- Repo : fedora
- Summary : Kernel dropped packet monitor
- URL : http://fedorahosted.org/dropwatch
- License : GPLv2+
- Description : dropwatch is an utility to interface to the kernel to monitor for dropped
- network packets.
Once that is done, you will see the kernel address. How do you map those to kernel functions, refer Get kernel function name from kernel address.
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Authored By Amit Agarwal
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