Apple OS X SMB issues across VPN

[David Collier-Brown]

  I can help with the packet analysis, if you can CC me on it.
I've been doing a lot of transaction performance work with
network traces lately, for a new book.

--dave

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:53:44PM -0600, Dan Tappin wrote:
> :
> 
>>># tcpdump -i <interface> -s0 -w capture.cap host 192.168.0.2
>>
>>This is on the Xserve right?... with <interface> being my LAN  
>>connection en0 I believe.
> 
> 
> Actually, that'd be on the client.  You only want to see traffic between
> the client and server.  You will probably have a switch (not a hub) so the
> switch will filter out any traffic to other nodes.  On the server side,
> you'd see all client traffic.
> 
> The other way to do it (from the server side) is:
> 
> # tcpdump -i <iface> -s0 -w capture.cap host 192.168.0.2 and host <clientIP>
> 
> ...and yes, if en0 is the name of the ethernet interface then that's what 
> you'd put in for <iface>.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 

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