Topic: Lots of network activity after install?

[brookhouse]

I have just installed SMEServer and there seems to be a hugh amount of network activity, judging by the hub LED of the port the box is conected to.

Any ideas what it is doing? Is it calling home for updates?

[Boris]

It doesn't call home. Activity depends on the software installed.
Most likely its samba activity like new browse master election, workgroup/domain discovery and also some dns and time syncronization with internet. If you have system-monitor installed that also pings default gateway to time latency on the regular interval.

[jdarrough]

I am having a similar problem, although I am on a dialup (SLOOOW dialup). I thought maybe it was qmail, but I installed qmHandle and there were no messeges in the queue. What else might be going on? Which logfile would tell me what's accessing the modem?

[chris burnat]

try tcpdump host <lan address> and see...