[CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
i have been noticing a short connection burst in system monitor every time i connect to internet. i got curious and decided to run wireshark to see what was happening. seems that i am connecting to 96.195.141.178 with destination of PartedMagic. this seemed strange because i do not have

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:49 AM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: i have been noticing a short connection burst in system monitor every time i connect to internet. i got curious and decided to run wireshark to see what was happening. seems that i am connecting to 96.195.141.178 with destination

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
On 12/03/2014 11:13 AM, Mark Milhollan wrote: Do you mean PartedMagic as the destination port? If so that's just a translation from the port number to a name found in your /etc/services file. It is often wrong or misleading, and in most cases can be ignored. i have no PartedMagic in

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
On 12/03/2014 04:49 AM, g wrote: my bad. :-( to SilverT257 and Mark Mihollan, thank you for responding. my chemo brain gets forgetful. i am taking system offline after sending this and will run wireshark again to see if there is anything different. thanks again. -- peace out. in a

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/3/2014 12:47 PM, g wrote: wireshark text file loaded at; http://pastebin.com/rCU0CC10 some device on your network has the MAC address 00:0f:fe:8f:8f:23 which Wireshark is calling PartedMagic for unknown reasons. That MAC prefix apparently belongs to an obscure Chinese computer

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
new paste at; http://pastebin.com/rCU0CC10 hopeful this will give better info and answers. thanks again to respondents. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc,hago. g . ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
John, thank you for replying. On 12/03/2014 03:21 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/3/2014 12:47 PM, g wrote: wireshark text file loaded at; http://pastebin.com/rCU0CC10 some device on your network has the MAC address 00:0f:fe:8f:8f:23 which Wireshark is calling PartedMagic for unknown

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread zep
oh. the ARP packet suggests that MAC address is 192.168.1.144 that is how i see it. is that 1.144 IP address in use by the machine you ran the lspci from? I think his original intent was that perhaps it was a separate device are you running VMs on this host by chance? -- public gpg key

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread zep
On 12/03/2014 05:05 PM, g wrote: John, thank you for replying. On 12/03/2014 03:21 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/3/2014 12:47 PM, g wrote: wireshark text file loaded at; http://pastebin.com/rCU0CC10 some device on your network has the MAC address 00:0f:fe:8f:8f:23 which Wireshark

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/3/2014 1:53 PM, g wrote: new paste at; http://pastebin.com/rCU0CC10 hopeful this will give better info and answers. thanks again to respondents. again, wireshark is, for some unknown reason, calling that 00:0f:fe:8f:8f:23 MAC address PartedMagic, this MAC is associated with the

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread g
On 12/03/2014 04:15 PM, zep wrote: oh. the ARP packet suggests that MAC address is 192.168.1.144 that is how i see it. is that 1.144 IP address in use by the machine you ran the lspci from? somewhere. but i know not where. http://www.whoami.it/home/ shows me to be;

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:09 PM, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: is that 1.144 IP address in use by the machine you ran the lspci from? somewhere. but i know not where. http://www.whoami.it/home/ shows me to be; adsl-184-41-28-86.mem.bellsouth.net for the hell of it, i pulled and

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/3/2014 3:09 PM, g wrote: On 12/03/2014 04:15 PM, zep wrote: oh. the ARP packet suggests that MAC address is 192.168.1.144 that is how i see it. is that 1.144 IP address in use by the machine you ran the lspci from? somewhere. but i know not where. http://www.whoami.it/home/

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Possibly your system was installed or cloned using PartedMagic, and that left an entry in /etc/ethers mapping your default nic to the name 'PartedMagic'? K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Apologies for the previous top post :-( Forgot to trim the (...) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos