Subject: Re: Who is pinging me?
To: John F. Woods <jfw@funhouse.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/20/1996 00:34:51
>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 thes
e
>packets?  I assume I can knock something together using BPF, but I am hoping
>that someone here has already solved this problem...

tcpdump?

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