Subject: Re: Who is pinging me?
To: John F. Woods <jfw@funhouse.com>
From: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 05/20/1996 14:25:20
On Sun, 19 May 1996, John F. Woods wrote:

> According to my modem lights and netstat -picmp, someone out there in IP land
> seems to be constantly pinging my system (not a flood ping, thank goodness).
> Is there an existing program that can be used to figure out the source of these
> packets?  I assume I can knock something together using BPF, but I am hoping
> that someone here has already solved this problem...

 tcpdump -i your-happy-network-interface icmp

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