cable modem activity

[Sergey Semenyuk]

Although getting back to the essence of the subject, ps or top are not
always able provide you the info you need, but lsof could really give you a
better picture, as well as netstat (see man, I don't remember the syntax
well). 

Sergey


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Sergey
Kuznetsov
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:34 PM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: cable modem activity

Hi Sergey,

Yes, it can be port scanning ( it's common stuff these days ) or NetBIOS
broadcasting, as well as Windows likes to send some probes to UDP port 1900.

But lsof -i can give him most detailed info.





On April 21, 2004 03:24 pm, Sergey Semenyuk wrote:
> There is a lot of incoming Netbios crap. Sometimes it can create some
heavy
> traffic.
>
> Sergey
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Charly
> Baker Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:21 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: cable modem activity
>
> ps -A
>
> or better still, install treeps
> http://www.orbit2orbit.com/gmd/tps/treepsfm.html
>
> Charly Baker
>
> On Wednesday 21 April 2004 3:11 pm, Mel Seder wrote:
> > I left the computer on and went for lunch.  The computer wasn't doing
> > anything that used the modem and I had no scheduled jobs.
> >
> > When I came back from lunch the cable model was going at full blast.
> >
> > Is there a command or something I can do to see what processes are
> > running instead of just shutting down the computer?
> >
> >
> >
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