Odd network traffic with Edgy

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at mikefedyk.com
Sun Feb 11 18:57:53 UTC 2007


Florian Diesch wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at mikefedyk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ed Smits wrote:
>>> However, on the newer one, which I just started to set up this week I
>>> notice that even in those quiet moments I have what seems to be a lot
>>> of network traffic I can't account for.
>> apt-get install nmap
>> nmap -np
>>
>> nmap will show you in brutal detail what is happening on your network 
>> interface(s).
> 
> nmap is a portscanner, it doesn't show traffic.

Yes, replace nmap with tcpdump and the commands above will work.

Mike




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