> tethereal -n not tcp port 22 Yep all I see is APR requests and Name queries now. I was using ssh at the time!
> Are you sure it's not? Of course being connected on a big network you > will receive plenty of junk, specialy as your broadcast domain seems > quite big. Any machine looking for an other (dns server, gateway, > whatever) will send an arp message that _everybody_ will receive (if > not, your ethernet will never work), windows machines hoping to make new > friends will do the same... There is very little you can do other than > taking no action (which your IP stack already does for most of this > stuff). You may additionnaly use iptables to remove this useless traffic > (just be carefull that on a busy network you may fill your logs with > useless crap) but this will not prevent the traffic from reaching you. > The only other way would be to put a router between you and the big > network, but you don't gain much I think. Thanks for that. I have cheap netgear switch at the moment connected to one of the network's hubs. If I invested in an expensive switch (like cisco or something) that could go to lower layers then would I find that this traffic went away? The reason I ask is that my friends server in redbus doesn't have this problem... Thanks for you help.
