Re: Is this a DoS attack?
On 05 Mar 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if data
> >were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do not show
>
> You might try watching for the next time this happens, and run
> tcpdump.
>
> Mike
> --
Thanks to all for replies and suggestions. I'm back to normal at
present.
Comments on suggestions:
1. I have fetchmail collecting mail every 30 seconds but there was too
much activity, too prolonged, for this to be the explanation.
2. I don't have a cron job to collect updates; I do it manually. I do
have climate simulation, mprime, and setiathome running in the
background, but I turned these off and the activity continued.
3. This is a Netgear DG834G. I recently added a Wireless 108G Access
Point to get a signal in a distant room and I thought that might have
been the source, but I turned it off and then turned off the whole
wireless network without affecting the activity.
4. I will try tcpdump if it happens again.
Anthony
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