[clug-talk] Flashing green lights seen at night on my router

[Chris Lusena]

As some who has wiresharked his shaw traffic I can tell you that you will always have traffic on the shaw side of your router. I think I was 30-50 ARP request per min. when I last looked, plus DHCP request, plus attacks,
plus martians, plus what ever I was actually using, so depending on how your router is set up this might not be surprising. 

I have no idea about the Mac, other than she might be "using" the internet all the time. Bittorrent, other p2p, or compromised mac  take your pick.


--
Chris


--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Ralph Boland <rpboland at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ralph Boland <rpboland at gmail.com>
> Subject: [clug-talk] Flashing green lights seen at night on my router
> To: clug-talk at clug.ca
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:21 PM
>  I am running Ubuntu 9.04.
>  I have Internet service with Shaw and a wireless router
>  (Linksyswrt54gv6)  that I am directly connected to.
>  A roomate is connected to the router wirelessly.  He
> uses windows.  :-(
>  Recently someone moved into the downstairs apartment
>  and is now also connected wirelessly to the router. 
> She uses a Mac.
> 
> 2 issues:
> 
> 1) The Internet light on the router is always flashing.
>     Shouldn't it only be flashing when there is
> Internet traffic?
>     Is there any setting of the router that I can
> do to fix this
>     assuming it is a problem?
> 
> 2) Since the Mac was connected the wireless light is always
> flashing.
>     Before it only flashed when the windows user
> was using the wireless.
>     What do I do so that the wireless list
> flashes only when there
>     is Internet traffic?
>     I suppose this is really a Mac question but I
> wouldn't know how
>     to fix this problem if she was using Linux
> either (if it would be
>     a problem on Linux that is).
> 
> 
>  Thanks in advance for any advice.
> 
>  Ralph Boland
> 
> -- 
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> tyranny of a deterministic universe.
> But it does give God something to do.
> 
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