Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

From: R G Cottrell (rossc_at_froggy.com.au)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:09:46 +1000
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    Hi all,

    While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that
    from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times
    when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only
    has a single data LED, so I can't tell whether the data is coming or
    going. My guess is that it's just malicious packets from the internet
    splashing against my firewall, but I'd like to rule out the possibility
    that there's some malicious process running on my machine that's
    actively communicating with some other computer on the net.
    (If they're really out to get you it's not called paranoia. :-)

    Is there any simple tool that will show me (in realtime, preferably)
    any processes on my box that are accessing the PPP interface?

    FWIW, I'm running sarge on a Pentium box.

    Regards, Rossc. 

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