On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Daniel Bauer
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 08:52:29, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Bauer
wrote: I am connected via cable to a router via eth0. I also have a wireless eth1 in my laptop. When I now look at the graphs of gkrellm it shows me that eth1 is busy all the time. Usually there is nothing on eth1 when I'm connected by cable. So how comes I see so much activity there now?
How can I find out what's going on?
Maybe its GKrellm sniffing around out there?
Shut down GKrellm and use ifconfig to see if the TX/RX counts climb. It could be just looking for wireless netowrks (iwscan or something).
ok, gkrellm is not running anymore, and ifconfig shows that some dropped rx packets and some tx bytes :
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:905 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:23994 (23.4 Kb)
some seconds later, some more:
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:916 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:24420 (23.8 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:959 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:26388 (25.7 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1036 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:30462 (29.7 Kb)
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:1155 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:34998 (34.1 Kb)
What is tx'ed here? Does this mean anything?
Daniel
Rx=Received Tx=Transmitted. The packet count is pretty small. Its not receiving anything. My best guess is Its just looking for wireless routers. On the other hand, if you have it in adhoc mode it might be advertising a network. Its late here or I'd power up my laptop for comparison. Perhaps between now and tomorrow some one will have a more definitive answer. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org