Need to identify traffic.

I have posted before that when I run "cvs update" GkrellM shows a lot of
traffic going OUT and nothing coming BACK, and nothing gets updated.
Checkout seems to run normally.

Last time, I tried this with Cervisia, and the traffic continued after I had
exited Cervisia, which wasn't within the screen display by Top any more.
This was on MDK 10.1 ( my usual is 9.2) so it doesn't seem to be a software
problem. Since it was outbound, I am sure that it was harmless, but I had
to reboot to kill it.

I am on a solo computer, my only "network" being a DHCP connection to an
ADSL modem. What can I use to identify this traffic?

Doug.
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Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> I have posted before that when I run "cvs update" GkrellM shows a lot of
> traffic going OUT and nothing coming BACK, and nothing gets updated.
> Checkout seems to run normally.
>
> Last time, I tried this with Cervisia, and the traffic continued after I had
> exited Cervisia, which wasn't within the screen display by Top any more.
> This was on MDK 10.1 ( my usual is 9.2) so it doesn't seem to be a software
> problem. Since it was outbound, I am sure that it was harmless, but I had
> to reboot to kill it.
>
> I am on a solo computer, my only "network" being a DHCP connection to an
> ADSL modem. What can I use to identify this traffic?
>
> Doug.

I'd start with tcpdump or (my favourite) Ethereal.

For statistics, the tool is ntop.

HTH

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Tauno Voipio
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Tauno Voipio wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> I have posted before that when I run "cvs update" GkrellM shows a lot of
>> traffic going OUT and nothing coming BACK, and nothing gets updated.
>> Checkout seems to run normally.
>>
>> Last time, I tried this with Cervisia, and the traffic continued after I
>> had exited Cervisia, which wasn't within the screen display by Top any
>> more. This was on MDK 10.1 ( my usual is 9.2) so it doesn't seem to be a
>> software problem. Since it was outbound, I am sure that it was harmless,
>> but I had to reboot to kill it.
>>
>> I am on a solo computer, my only "network" being a DHCP connection to an
>> ADSL modem. What can I use to identify this traffic?
>>
>> Doug.
>
> I'd start with tcpdump or (my favourite) Ethereal.
>
> For statistics, the tool is ntop.
>
> HTH
>
Thanks Tauno. Ethereal is available for my distro.
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On 2004-11-29, Doug Laidlaw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> What can I use to identify this traffic?

iptraf, tcpdump and the log of your firewall.
Davide

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