Re: constant pinging

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Date: 10/29/02


Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:23:01 -0000

Are you on a DSl or Cable connection? Is it your ISP pinging you for
connection monitoring?

do your logs show the IP that is pinging?

you may want to run ethereal sniffer and get some insight. Its a
shareware/freeware sniffer.

jason.mangiafico@verizon.net (JM) wrote in
news:jXsv9.11730$FS5.10598@nwrddc04.gnilink.net:

> A while ago, I wrote here about my activity light blinking once every
> ten seconds apart. I finally figured out what it was. Pinging...Just
> constant pinging all day long. Even this drowns out the hits on port
> 137.
>
>
> Here's a small section of my logs. You know this makes a BIG file
> after a while.
>
> 10/29/2002 04:48:09 PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:09 PPP Rx: [1], echo request
> 10/29/2002 04:48:09 PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:09 PPP Tx: [1], echo reply
> 10/29/2002 04:48:19 PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:19 PPP Rx: [1], echo request
> 10/29/2002 04:48:19 PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:19 PPP Tx: [1], echo reply
> 10/29/2002 04:48:29 PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:29 PPP Rx: [1], echo request
> 10/29/2002 04:48:29 PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:29 PPP Tx: [1], echo reply
> 10/29/2002 04:48:39 PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:39 PPP Rx: [1], echo request
> 10/29/2002 04:48:39 PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:39 PPP Tx: [1], echo reply
> 10/29/2002 04:48:49 PPP Rx: [1], proto=c021 code=9 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:49 PPP Rx: [1], echo request
> 10/29/2002 04:48:49 PPP Tx: [1], proto=c021 code=10 sid=a5e7
> 10/29/2002 04:48:49 PPP Tx: [1], echo reply
>



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