Constant recieving on cable modem

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:31:04 -0400
begin  Harry G <harrycg at attbi.com> spewed forth:

> 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.

Normal.  What you're almost certainly seeing is everyone else.  If you run
tcpdump on your external interface, you'll prabably see hundreds of ARP
queries and replies.  You'll see them because your cable modem is almost
certainly running in bridge mode.  Same applies to DSL modems in bridge
mode.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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