Arg. TCP slow start killing me.

[Rémy Sanchez]

On Monday 14 November 2011 01:33:11 Erich Weiler wrote:
> Actually, another question might be:  How can I prove that my firewall 
> really is dropping packets in transit, as it forwards them on?  Is there 
> some sysctl oid that would show dropped packets, so some netstat counter 
> I can look at?

I'll say something stupid, but in the worst case just use tcpdump to capture 
both of your interfaces, and then compare them, one way or the other...

A quick google of "pcap diff" gives some results, like 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpcat/

-- 
Rémy Sanchez
http://hyperthese.net/
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