Excessive Uploading Found on DSL Line

[James Knott]

Glen Strom wrote:
> I recently had a problem with my EOL DSL line. It turns out Bell had to
> adjust the error correction. When I talked to the EOL tech afterward,
> she said there was an excessive amount of uploading on my connection.
> Naturally, she suspected a virus or something like that until I told
> her I use Linux. Then she suggested that I might have a program on my
> system that's phoning home. So now I have two questions:
> 1. Is there program I can use to locate a chatty app on the system?
> 2. Is there another reason for this uploading activity?
> 
> Note that I haven't included any stats because I'm not sure what
> program to use to measure this uploading.
> 
> By the way, I used both chkrootkit and rkhunter to check for rootkits
> and found nothing amiss. I checked my firewall at ShieldsUp and it's
> still in stealth mode (however accurate/meaningful that is).

You can try Ethereal or TCP dump, to see what's happening.  However, I
suspect the tech didn't know what she's talking about.  Why would any
amount of traffic cause a DSL line failure?  Also I'd suspect she was
adjusting levels or similar, to reduce error rate, not adjusting error
correction.
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