Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:09:46 +1000, R G Cottrell <rossc@froggy.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that
> from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times
> when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only
> has a single data LED, so I can't tell whether the data is coming or
> going. My guess is that it's just malicious packets from the internet
> splashing against my firewall, but I'd like to rule out the possibility
> that there's some malicious process running on my machine that's
> actively communicating with some other computer on the net.
> (If they're really out to get you it's not called paranoia. :-)
>
> Is there any simple tool that will show me (in realtime, preferably)
> any processes on my box that are accessing the PPP interface?
>
> FWIW, I'm running sarge on a Pentium box.
>
There are a lot of program and utilities you can use, tcpdump, ngrep,
ethereal, etherape...
Said that, i find jnettop to be a very neat program, runs in a console
and the interface is similar to top.
Andrea
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