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Re: [opensuse] Unexplained Network Traffic
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:56:17 -0700
- Message-id: <200704230856.17374.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 23 April 2007 08:36, Dylan wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007, James Knott wrote:
> > Ethereal (now known as Wire Shark) will let you examine the
> > packets, to see what they are, along with addresses etc. It's
> > included with SUSE, but I don't think it's installed by default.
>
> Well, that showed one of these every three seconds:
>
> ...
>
> Further investigation shows that the source MAC address belongs to a
> wired port on the wireless access point. When this laptop is on a
> wire the traffic doesn't occur, but when on wireless it is there. Any
> suggestions as to what it is and maybe how to stop it. The AP is a
> Netgear WPN824v2.
One packet every three seconds is next to nothing. Why bother?
> Dylan
Randall Schulz
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> On Monday 23 April 2007, James Knott wrote:
> > Ethereal (now known as Wire Shark) will let you examine the
> > packets, to see what they are, along with addresses etc. It's
> > included with SUSE, but I don't think it's installed by default.
>
> Well, that showed one of these every three seconds:
>
> ...
>
> Further investigation shows that the source MAC address belongs to a
> wired port on the wireless access point. When this laptop is on a
> wire the traffic doesn't occur, but when on wireless it is there. Any
> suggestions as to what it is and maybe how to stop it. The AP is a
> Netgear WPN824v2.
One packet every three seconds is next to nothing. Why bother?
> Dylan
Randall Schulz
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