Jack Malone wrote:
>
> Ok i installed corel linux yesterday an when it booted I get lots of
> traffic showing up on my hub from the linux box an win98 box.
> i then blew away corel an put mandrake on the linux box an i get the same
> thing. nothing it going out over the cable modem just between the two boxes
> but I can not determin what is causing the traffic. I have sygate running
> on the win98 box for now to share the net access from the cable modem, it
> is supplying an ip go the linux box via dhcp. Can someont tell me where to
> look to see what is causing all this traffic. the lights on the hub are
> going 90 to nuthing. i can unplug one cat5 cable from hub an in a littlw
> while hook it back an the traffic is stopped an i have internet access.
> then sometimes even that will not work. Im at a loss for now as what to
> look for thanks in advance for helping
You need to find out what's causing all of the traffic. Use tcpdump on
your Linux machine to get that information:
tcpdump -i eth0
will show everything going over the first ethernet connection.
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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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