On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:24:30PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> I have Mandrake 8.0 with the bastille firewall set up. Today, I
> noticed that I have a pretty steady stream of incoming packets coming
> across the interface that is plugged into the cable modem, although I
> am not doing anything on the Internet. According to gkrellm, it is
> about 1.0-1.2KBps. The activity light on my cable modem is blinking
> pretty steadily although there is no traffic initiated by me. Could
> someone help me diagnose where this traffic is coming from?
I installed tcpdump and used that to monitor the interface. I am
getting a steady stream of arp requests. I do not remember ever seeing
this before. Is this something I need to bug the cable company about?
Thanks.
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Glenn Johnson
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