On Friday 26 November 2010, Andrew R Paterson wrote: > On Friday 26 November 2010, Brian R Masterman wrote: > > I would appreciate any advise and help on networking. (they say a little > > knowledge is a dangerous thing). > > > > I have been running etherape and it shows that my Linux system is > > sending out a lot of packets to IP addresses. I do do not have anything > > running (that I know of) and disconnecting from the Internet shows that > > these connections are still shown, but they are removed after time-outs > > occur. > > > > Doing a 'netstat -a' shows a lot of connected states. (even tho' I have > > unplugged the router connection to the Internet). > > > > (I have run 'transmission' for a torrent download some time back which > > may be the cause of the connections, but that is not running). > > > > It would appear that somewhere, something is trying to re-establish > > connections to the systems out on the Internet. > > > > I would expect to have no connections, especially when I have nothing > > communicating to the Internet. (maybe things like the update manager). > > > > My Linux build is the Ultimate Edition 2.8 - Ubuntu 10 based) > > > > Brian M > > > > > > > > -- > > Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 > > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue > > Hi Brian, > netstat -ape should show the pids of the offending processes/ > Regards > Andy Oh and you can also try your luck with lsof: e.g. lsof -i TCP:39895 to see what pid owns tcp/39895 man lsof is your friend
-- Andy Paterson -- Next meeting: Somewhere quiet, Bournemouth, ???day 2010-12-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
