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NAME

6       dropwatch - kernel dropped packet monitoring utility
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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

12       dropwatch  dropwatch  is  an  interactive  utility  for  monitoring and
13       recording packets that are dropped by the kernel
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OPTIONS

16       Currently dropwatch supports no command line options, but will shortly.
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INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

19       START  Tells the kernel to start reporting dropped packets
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21       STOP   Tells the kernel to discontinue reporting dropped packets
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23       EXIT   Exits the dropmonitor program
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25       HELP   Displays summary of all commands
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27       SET ALERTLIMIT <value>
28              Sets a triggerpoint to stop monitoring for dropped packets after
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33Neil Horman                        Mar 2009                       dropwatch(1)