It turns out it was the driver. The packet counts from windows were not matching the ethereal packets, so I rolled back the drivers and everything is back to normal. Thanks for your help.
John roberts -----Original Message----- From: Kevin O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Windows XP computer spewing packets Just went trough the same issue here re: packet count - There was no correlation b/w the numbers of packets caught on ethereal and the local area connection status counter. Found a round-about reference at http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/faq.jsp?FID=tr o0000001b96 Apparently its an error in the driver - I downloaded an updated driver directly from intel and the problem is fixed. The driver issue seems independent of your Nmap question... Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows XP computer spewing packets One of the employees here has a Windows laptop, and in the last day, it has sent out over 1,000,000,000,000 packets, and received around 30,000. The 30,000 is a standard load, but the trillion packets seem to be a bit high. I've scanned for spyware and viruses and found nothing. I tried to nMapWin from the network, and the computer didn't respond, and when he tried to nMapWin his ports, he couldn't find himself, from his own computer. Do you have any idea what could be causing this? I'm not to keen on these packets flying around my network, and if there are security issues, I'm even less keen. John roberts -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
