Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:55:13 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: "Matt Coe, CCNA" <webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bandwidth hit in natd/ipfw on 4.4-RELEASE Message-ID: <20040326145513.GD4741@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <406441AC.6080707@jargonccna.cjb.net> References: <200403260324.i2Q3O4f0032739@mail.cjb.net> <20040326141935.GB4741@ei.bzerk.org> <406441AC.6080707@jargonccna.cjb.net>
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:43:56AM -0400, Matt Coe, CCNA typed: > Ruben de Groot wrote: > > >4.4-RELEASE is quite old. Have you considered the possibility that you > >got rooted? > > > > > I'm sure it's /possible/, but extraordinarily unlikely. The server's > only been three days and I'm on a university resnet; I'd guess that no > port below 1024 is accessible from outside my house.. and the most > computer-literate people in this house are either Counter-Strike addicts > or me. There are very few Computer Science students in this house, and > I'm probably the only person who actively uses something other than > WinXP or MacOS X. So maybe *they* got infected by some bandwidth-hungry virus/trojan/worm ? Seriously, have you tried investigating (netstat/sockstat/tcpdump are all good tools for this) what exactly is consuming so much bandwidth on your system? Ruben
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