Wow Thanks You 3 installs later just to find it creep into my system after a couple of days, and nothing on the web unless you know the phrase "flooded" the network.
And indeed using System Monitor it tricked me to believing it was other things, then finally who would have guessed - PulseAudio, after using it for 8 years, indeed no Airtunes here, perhaps it started after installing Audacity - I don't know for sure, but kinda makes sense know. indeed paprefs - Multicast/RTP - DISable "Multicast/RTP sender" and/or gconf editor : pulseaudio -> modules -> rtp-send -Uncheck "enabled How is this still a problem 5 years later - WOW Thanks again -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411688 Title: pulseaudio floods network with multicast packets To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pulseaudio/+bug/411688/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs