[Gllug] Network Traffic

Walid Shaari walid at melinux.com
Sun Oct 13 06:37:35 UTC 2002


On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 11:21, Andy Loates wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Apologies for this simple question.
> 
> My internet (ISDN) connection refuses to close down after the specified 
> idle time - 4 mins - ie some process is making it stay up.
> 
> There is a utility/command that is similar to 'tail -f /var/log/---' for 
> files that shows you all network traffic as it occurs. I've used it 
> before but I must have thrown the reference to it away and no matter of 
> looking through manuals, Books, google etc can i find it.
> 
> My connection has now been up for a day and a half, thank god for 
> Surftime 24/7, and as my security is for dial up i'm beginning to get 
> concerned.

<wild guess>

I believe there was a similar thread about these 
tcp_keepalive_intvl   tcp_keepalive_probes  tcp_keepalive_time
under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/

</wild guess>

Walid


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