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 -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
