On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:06:59PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
> This means something is sending traffic to a multicast address.
> multicast is similar to broadcast except hosts have to join a multicast group
> to pick up the traffic. What is the source address on the packets this should give
> you an idea on if you're generating them or your cable provider is.
>
> Possible sources are.
>
> Routing updates eg ospf, rip
> ntp
> multicast streaming video
Hmm yeah it's odd that the on;y 2 machiens I could see communicating are the
gateway and my own Linux desktop. Very mysterious. I might try the
suggestion of tcpdump and see where it gets me.
Cheers,
Graeme
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