I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

[Michael Sierchio]

Josh Brooks wrote:
> Whenever I run:
> 
> tcpdump -vvv
> 
> when I am finished, I am surprised to see:
> 
> 27441 packets received by filter
> 7866 packets dropped by kernel

The time it takes to resolve host names, probably, and the additional
burden of writing the service names, where known, etc.

Try

tcpdump -vvv -n

or

tcpdump -vvv -ln