Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] 250000 packets?

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From: "DAIGLE, ANDREW PAUL" <ADAIG90@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:13:20 -0600

That depends on what type of packets they are. Cablemodems tend to have an awful lot of ARP traffic, so if the majority of those packets are ARP packets (and they are spread evenly over the 6 hour period) then this probably isn’t something to be concerned about. However, if your PC is moving large amounts of data on a TCP/UDP port, then you need to make sure you know which application is responsible.

 

Andrew

 

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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of michael butler
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:19 PM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] 250000 packets?

 

Hey everybody, I am totally new to ethereal. I just ran a random capture last night before I went to bed to see what would happen. When I got up it had capture almost 250000 packets in 6 hours. Now I was wondering is this normal for a cable modem? Or is my computer going crazy sending and receiving packets? I am on a cable modem with winXP.