debugging on the DHCP server

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Tue Jul 15 06:53:45 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 08:48 +0200, Peter Rathlev wrote:
> What stops you from using tcpdump? You mention 3000 clients. Even with a
> lease-time of just an hour your shouldn't see more than 1500
> transactions per hour, which should be much less than 10000 packets per
> hour. That should translate to probably less than 5 MB per hour, a
> trivial amount of storage in these days.

Oops, slightly wrong numbers. 3000 clients -> ~6000 t/hr. Most (renews)
are two packets each probably less than 500 bytes. That's ~6 MB/hr.

-- 
Peter




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