Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2007 08:36, Dylan wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2007, James Knott wrote:
Ethereal (now known as Wire Shark) will let you examine the
packets, to see what they are, along with addresses etc. It's
included with SUSE, but I don't think it's installed by default.
Well, that showed one of these every three seconds:
...
Further investigation shows that the source MAC address belongs to a
wired port on the wireless access point. When this laptop is on a
wire the traffic doesn't occur, but when on wireless it is there. Any
suggestions as to what it is and maybe how to stop it. The AP is a
Netgear WPN824v2.
One packet every three seconds is next to nothing. Why bother?
Well, that would depend on what it is. For example, you'll often see
spanning tree protocol between switches. This is expected and
harmless. On the other hand, it might be a virus (such as Microsoft
<g>) trying to phone home with your confidential info. A couple of
weeks ago, I discovered that a customer, located a few hundred miles
away, apparently had a virus running on a computer on his network. I
discovered this while trying to find the cause of performance issues
with our equipment. I used an ethereal dump to find it.
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