**************************************** * LUG meet @ 4.00 pm on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > My observations are that if I stay online (without actually > surfing) for more than 2-3 hours, this difference is quite > noticeable. "ifconfig eth0" (which shows IP *plus* non-IP > traffic, as opposed to iptables' input chain, which shows only IP > traffic) is closer to what they claim is my "usage", and using > tcpdump I realise that the difference is the constant stream of > ARP traffic (amounting to about 300-500 KB/hour!) Check your firewall configuration, misconfigured firewalls can generate unwanted ARP packets. Don't know about your double counting problem though. Best regards, Rajesh -- -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
