Where is incoming traffic coming from?

Amedee @ Ubuntu amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Thu Jul 30 22:53:28 UTC 2009


Hello,

I noticed that I got a lot of incoming traffic on my server. Look at vnstat:

# vnstat -d

 eth0  /  daily

    day         rx      |     tx      |  total
------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
   02.07.      5.54 GB  |  258.12 MB  |    5.79 GB   %%%
   03.07.      4.99 GB  |  136.65 MB  |    5.12 GB   %%%
   04.07.      5.40 GB  |  126.95 MB  |    5.52 GB   %%%
   05.07.      2.07 GB  |   59.51 MB  |    2.13 GB   %
   06.07.      8.47 GB  |  326.36 MB  |    8.79 GB   %%%%%%
   07.07.      9.80 GB  |  391.30 MB  |   10.18 GB   %%%%%%
   08.07.      8.04 GB  |  348.55 MB  |    8.38 GB   %%%%%
   09.07.     10.58 GB  |  389.05 MB  |   10.96 GB   %%%%%%%
   10.07.     19.15 GB  |   17.26 GB  |   36.41 GB  
%%%%%%%%%%%%%::::::::::::
   11.07.     14.92 GB  |    3.34 GB  |   18.26 GB   %%%%%%%%%%::
   12.07.     13.91 GB  |    2.23 GB  |   16.14 GB   %%%%%%%%%::
   13.07.     14.42 GB  |    2.08 GB  |   16.50 GB   %%%%%%%%%%:
   14.07.     20.49 GB  |    1.50 GB  |   21.99 GB   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%:
   15.07.     16.14 GB  |    1.61 GB  |   17.76 GB   %%%%%%%%%%%:
   16.07.     14.86 GB  |    1.10 GB  |   15.96 GB   %%%%%%%%%:
   17.07.     17.26 GB  |    1.20 GB  |   18.46 GB   %%%%%%%%%%%:
   18.07.     13.49 GB  |    1.26 GB  |   14.74 GB   %%%%%%%%%:
   19.07.     12.97 GB  |  980.82 MB  |   13.93 GB   %%%%%%%%:
   20.07.     13.81 GB  |    1.01 GB  |   14.82 GB   %%%%%%%%%:
   21.07.      8.44 GB  |  704.84 MB  |    9.13 GB   %%%%%%
   22.07.     10.88 GB  |    0.99 GB  |   11.86 GB   %%%%%%%:
   23.07.      9.01 GB  |  980.68 MB  |    9.97 GB   %%%%%:
   24.07.      7.39 GB  |  583.17 MB  |    7.96 GB   %%%%%
   25.07.      6.23 GB  |  484.04 MB  |    6.70 GB   %%%%
   26.07.      8.19 GB  |  395.95 MB  |    8.58 GB   %%%%%
   27.07.     12.87 GB  |  883.55 MB  |   13.73 GB   %%%%%%%%:
   28.07.      8.83 GB  |  762.62 MB  |    9.57 GB   %%%%%%
   29.07.      8.65 GB  |  631.73 MB  |    9.27 GB   %%%%%%
   30.07.      8.76 GB  |  587.09 MB  |    9.34 GB   %%%%%%
   31.07.         0 kB  |       0 kB  |       0 kB
------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
 estimated       --     |      --     |      --


The tx values seem about right to me, but the rx values are totally
absurd! It should only be a few hunderd megabytes per day, maximum!

I have installed shorewall and I'm only accepting ping, ssh, http, https,
smtp, imap2 and imaps. Everything else is dropped.

I have also configured accounting in shorewall, but I'm not seeing
anything out of the ordinary:

# shorewall show accounting
Shorewall 4.2.10 Chain accounting at intrepid - Fri Jul 31 00:52:58 CEST 2009

Counters reset Fri Jul 31 00:47:19 CEST 2009

Chain accounting (3 references)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source              
destination
 1257  437K Total      all  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
 1285  501K Total      all  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
  411 26732 ssh        tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:22
  311  269K ssh        tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:22
   37  5756 smtp       tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:25
   33  3374 smtp       tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:25
   44  3132 imap2      tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:143
   35 65563 imap2      tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:143
    0     0 imaps      tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:993
    0     0 imaps      tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:993
  104 16439 www        tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:80
   71 94136 www        tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:80
    0     0 https      tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp dpt:443
    0     0 https      tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0           
0.0.0.0/0           tcp spt:443
    4   336 ping       icmp --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
    4   336 ping       icmp --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0


How can I find out where the incoming traffic is coming from?

-- 
Amedee





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