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Date:      18 Mar 2002 18:16:07 -0800
From:      dill@canada.com
To:        bmcalpine@macconnect.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tracking down bandwidth hogs...
Message-ID:  <20020319021607.26258.cpmta@c009.snv.cp.net>

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On Mon, 18 March 2002, Brendan McAlpine wrote:

Run netstat -an and see what ports are open. That gives you an idea of what services are offered.

If still in doubt, try tcpdump and see what sort of packets actually gets to the interface.

> I have a FreeBSD 4.3 machine running as a queuing mail server (qmail).
> There is no load on the server at all according to uptime and qmail
> commands, but my mrtg graph for that machine is showing a huge amount of
> bandwidth usage.  
> 
> How can I track down the cause of this usage?  Mail logs don't indicate any
> mail activity....


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