Constant recieving on cable modem

[dep]

begin  Harry G's  quote:
| I just started using ATT with a cable modem, external via a
| networking card, and gkrellm shows that I am constantly receiving
| small amounts of data.
|
| Is this normal?  I am using a firewall set up for a single station
| with Suse 8.0, and all unnecessary ports are closed.

look at your logfiles. and turn off anything that you don't need, such 
as apache. there's a fairly constant storm of machines trying to 
break in and do things, delivering everything from code red to newer 
stuff.
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dep

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