Re: Suspicious network traffic.

From: ynotssor (ynotssor_at_DAUGHTcom.invalid)
Date: 04/21/04


Date: 20 Apr 2004 21:42:30 -0500

In article <e8208503.0404200137.1e8c7367@posting.google.com> moorhuhn <db2trade@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>From mrtg, I found a constant 2 MBytes "incoming" traffic coming into
>eth0 every 5 minutes.
[...]
>How can I debug/fix this problem? I need to know why this eth0 RX
>value increased about 2 MBytes every 5 minutes ...
>
>Anyone know how to trace this problem?

Install and use http://freshmeat.net/projects/iftop/ to see what's happening.

        tony

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