Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/10/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 9/10/07, Guy Boisvert <boisvert.guy at videotron.ca> wrote: >> >>> On top of that, i'd say that a PC, with whatever processor you could >>> put, is able to service a certain amount of interrupts / second. >>> >> # cat /proc/interrupts >> > > Ok, so obviously just that snapshot wasn't very useful, sorry. > > Several minutes of "vmstat 2" output indicates that the number of > interrupts per second on the NAT gateway ranges between 600 and 1200, > occasionally as low as 540 or as high as 1300. > > (Working on getting wireshark in a place where we can monitor both ends.) > wireshark can process and display packet capture files from tcpdump -w filename, or most any other packet capture utility, as well as capture data itself. capture a few megabytes of packets on the appropriate interface of the firewall, then transfer them to a workstation with Wireshark for analysis.