On Saturday 20 January 2007 09:08 am, Bill Moseley wrote: > Here's an admin question: > > I've got a home LAN connected via DSL. Every once in a while the DSL > modem will indicate the connection is saturated. > > How would you go about tracking down the process that is eating up all > the bandwidth? > > First, need to find out which machine the process is running on. > > netstat -p on the NAT machine doesn't show the connections for the NAT'ed > machines. They can be seen with /proc/net/ip_conntrack, but that > doesn't offer any help with regard with where the bulk of the packets > are coming from. > > Once you find the machine how do you figure out what process is > generating all the traffic? Once I know the ip/port I can use lsof to > find out which process has that port open. > > If I could list bytes transferred per port that would help a lot in > finding the process. > > How would you go about this task? > > All this would seem like a reasonably common sysadmin task -- so are > there any better tools to use? > > > -- > Bill Moseley > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- If you have a wireless setup, you may have someone piggy-backing on your connection. If that is the case you need to password protect the connection. -- John W. Foster
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