How about running a sniffer like ethereal [ http://www.ethereal.com ] to
see exactly what's going across, destination addresses and source
addresses.
Ethereal will give you a real time break down of your traffic as well.
-Kervin
System Administrator wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I know this is probably a real dumb question, but I gotta ask. I don't
> know how to explain it, so please be patient.
>
> I am running a small server with a bunch of dial up modems. When no one
> is connected, there is a stack of traffic coming and going according to
> my squid cache files. The problem is I'm sending 12 gigs of data a
> months, and receiving 8 gigs. But the people who connect with me account
> for aound 20% of that, so that taffic is happending because of something
> else.
>
> When I watch /var/log/cache/access.log (squid log file), It's just going
> crazy with various IPs fetching web pages, that are not on my server. My
> web pages don't even have linked to the sites being surfed.
>
> s it possible someone is somehow connecting with me and surfing at my
> cost? Pulling gigs of data down through my ISDN link?
>
> btw: What does the squid message TCP_MIS:FIRST_UP_PARENT mean? (I'm
> running squid 1.3.6).. I use my telco as an upline cache. Could they be
> causing the problem?
>
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