[wellylug] Broadcast flood?

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Thu Feb 26 15:14:54 NZDT 2004


The more important question there is..

Are we being charged for that usage?

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:23, Cameron Hart wrote:
> I just happened to notice the light flashing on my ethernet card thats
> connected to my cable modem, and wondered why seeing as noone was
> actually using the net at the time. So I started up IPTraf to see how
> much bandwidth was going through. IPTraf is reporting that there is a
> constant 3 to 15 k/sec of broadcast packets going through... is this
> normal? I don't seem to remember this happening last time I looked at
> IPtraf...
> 
> I have attached a tcpdump of the last 200 packets to go through in case
> someone can work out what is causing this.
> 
> --
> Cameron
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