According to Laura Chappell's book named 'Catching the cool packets' (pg 21) this many ARP may mean some one is attempting to learn what machines are on the network. Craig Wicker Systems Administrator Hooker Furniture Corporation Sniffer Certified Professional CompTIA A+, N+ Microsoft MCP Cisco CCNA HP-UX -----Original Message----- From: Matt [mailto:dankronik@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:07 PM To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Ethereal-users] linksysg ARP question is there a reason why my WLAN(linksys) and my IP must ARP so much? i am on wireless and listen to streaming music sometimes so i figure this may be why it must keep 'reminding' itself. anyway, i have who has arp requests from packets 965 to 1253 in a row which seems like an exuberant amount for 1 hour. and everytime my screensaver comes on ethereal throws a dos error of..... (ethereal.exe:3372): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-win32.c:1587: BitBlt failed: Th e handle is invalid. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list Ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
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