new cable modem - and problems

Fri Sep 24 14:30:23 UTC 2004

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, James Knott wrote:

> Mine's on most of the time, but flickers.  However that flicker could be due 
> to traffic in either direction.

On a normal cable installation the arp packets for the entire subnet are 
visible at each station and cause flickering of the pc link led whether 
the respective node is up or down. They also load the tcpdump output, so 
you need to filter them out to see the dhcp lease traffic.

Peter
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