Yeah sure, my line speed is 256 kbit (so 10 kb per second would be undesireable noise) and there's no appliction running in the background that make traffic in addition to this.... when i check the transfer speed with Iptraf, it shows there's no ransfer as well (which is true)... people say that it uses a different method to calculate it so..... > On 04 Jan 2005 01:48 EET you wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > > The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. > > (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
