Another thing or course, is that many arp requests are often used by dark grey to black hats to generate traffic for a WEP cracking attack.
Raistlin Majere Leader of the red robes EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: 0xFAF6D464 GPG Fingerprint: C4D3 8173 B0D4 4AD3 C15A 9F28 E6FC FFBB FAF6 D464 IchBin wrote: > > > Sake Blok wrote: >>> IchBin wrote: >>>> The only problem I have is this just started last week. I have had this >>>> connection since sometime in April. Why would it just now start to rear >>>> it's head? >> What exactly do you mean by "this" in the sentence "this just started >> last week"? Do you mean the very slow network connection? Or do you >> mean the abundant amount of arp-requests? Or do you mean the DNS >> requests? >> > > The 'this' is the ARP packets. The slow connection is because of the HUB > management. At least that is what one of the Supervisors for support at > Comcast mentioned. It is suppose to improve but I am not holding my > breath based on my 'Comcast' experience.. > >> Many times when troubleshooting a problem, you see start to make >> traces at that time, having no base-line traces from a good >> working situation. The amount of arp-packets might be perfectly >> normal for this type of connection. > > This is all nice and true but this is my home PC. When I was the > Manager\Systems programmer of VM Operating systems for Campbell Soup > Company I did have benchmarks for these situations. It just happen to be > on mainframes. > > I do not have benchmarks of my port activities on my home PC. I have > never had this problem. I only noticed the extra traffic because my > cable modem light is just about solidly on all the time. I started to > look at the problem from there. Again I am a programmer not a network > person per say. > > Also the DNS-requests >> might have nothing to do with the problems you are experiencing >> although they might indeed point to some other problem on this >> PC. >> >> Could you compare these traces to one that was made before you >> started to experience problems? >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Sake >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireshark-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
