Re: Why does modem light keep on flashing

2003-10-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Ray Curd wrote: > In the meantime I have noticed on several occasions the lights on my > modem and on my network switch flashing, for a period of many minutes, > when I am not carrying out any net activity ap

Re: Why does modem light keep on flashing

2003-10-02 Thread John Spray
Ray Curd wrote: The lights on the switch indicate that the activity is on the link to the Windows box Windows likes to periodically announce itself to the network at large, as samba does. Now I would like to monitor this activity to see what it is, AND I want to do this from the relative safet

Why does modem light keep on flashing

2003-10-02 Thread Ray Curd
Hello I'm new to networking and so far, with the help of the excellent tutorials and HOWTOs, I've set up my network on a box with Mandrake 9.1 as firewall/internet gateway with iptables/masquerading and the stronger firewall from TrinityOS. I then have my main Debian box and a Win XP box. Eve