Network Activity

minhtang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 76

Sorry if this is a n00b question

I am currently using DSL, and when I view the network activity display in gkrellm2, I usually see data coming in at around 6-8K a second, even when I am not using the internet. Is this normal, or do I have to go hunting around for some potential problems ? :roll:

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devon · l33t Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 943

Are you directly connected to your DSL line? You could run a sniffer like tcpdump or ethereal to find out what the traffic is.

minhtang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 76

Thanks devon, I use dtcpdump and it turned out that the network activity was caused by my machine communicating with my ISP, so I guess there is no problem.
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Three minutes of thought would suffice to find this out. But then, thought is irksome, and three minutes is a rather long time.
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