On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Lord wrote:
hi, i use slackware 10... i installed a gnome applet that shows the netspeed (named netspeed). When i check it, it shows always 9-10 kbyte per second data transfer rate while there's no transfer.. so i checked my eth statistics from ifconfig and i see that RX value and applets value same..
So you see RX (received) traffic?
Have you checked with a packet sniffer i.e. tcpdump if there is really nothing, but the counters increase?
On my DSL line at home it's not uncommon that I get 5-9kb/s "background noise" after the daily reconnect (bloody german ISPs), especially if the former user of my current IP address had some kind of p2p client running.
And in bigger LAN environments there are lots of broadcasts.
c'ya sven
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