Re: [Sheflug] igmp packets...... it's getting worse....

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> The biggest problem with the multicasts packets is that they're eating up 
> bandwidth on your line. If they suddenly increase, then it could kill the 

IGMP packets shouldn't really be arriving any more than 2 a minute. If
they're coming much faster than that I would say NTL have misconfigured
bigtime.

> "ethereal" (which you need GTK and X for)...however I'm sure there must be a 
> way, but I haven't found it, of dumping the data within packets using plain 
> tcpdump. Ethereal is a nice tool though, so give that a whirl (if you want 

Yup, ethereal is damn fine.


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