tracking down network load?

Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD at keyslapper.net
Mon May 23 13:24:36 PDT 2005


Heh :)  Duh.  The AOL connection in question was gaims connection back
to the AIM server.  Silly me.  I still don't know which of the
established connections was responsible for the sustained load though.

My system also suddenly went offline, and couldn't seem to hold its
connection afterward.  After kicking the ppp daemon a couple times, I
just rebooted the system.  The only log I can find that might have
been relevant is this one:

May 23 15:38:47 keyslapper ppp[47819]: Warning: ff02:5::/32: Change
route failed: errno: Network is unreachable

This sounds like some kind of upstream change in network routing, but
I don't know anything else about it.  Could such a change have caused
the network to do double time trying to get routes?

Lou

On 05/23/05 02:55 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
> I have a strange question.  Well, maybe not so strange.
> 
> I am working on my 5.3 RELEASE system, and I notice my network monitor
> on gkrellm is showing unexplained loads (15/23Kbps sustained) in
> traffic on the external interface.
> 
> I'm not too concerned that this is a security breach, but I do notice
> at least one ESTABLISHED connection that I can't explain (it goes back
> to AOL, which naturally sows a little mistrust).
> 
> Anyway, how to I find the actual process (server or otherwise) on my
> end that is handling a given connection, and what kind of load it is
> handling?
> 
> TIA
> Lou
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