Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Can dumpcap show dropped packets statistics ?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lerdpong Lerdpaisarnwong wrote:
> Hello,all
>  
> I am using dumpcap to dump my network stream(network bandwidth is 
> 200-500Mbps) to .cap files because it's low level and drop should be 
> lessed but dumpcap does not report any drop statistics.
>  
> I would like to know whether it has drop. Can Dumpcap report dropped 
> statistics?
>  
> I used  libpcap 0.8.3 and wireshark 0.99.5 on Fedora core 4

At least with Wireshark 1.0.0 'dumpcap' does tell if you if it dropped 
some packets or not:

> Packets: 36 Packets dropped: 0

(AFAIK the number of dropped packets is whatever the capture 
mechanism--libpcap or WinPCAP--tells it.)