Sounds neat.
Since the viruses hit about a year ago, my cable modem's ACTIVITY LED blinks a lot, as do the WAN lights on my Linksys router. It is said that much of this is ARP packets passing through the DOCSIS cable modem (since it seems to act like a dumb bridge). THere are occasional IP packets thrown in too.
I wonder if there's a way to see what IP is throwing all of the ARP packets, given I don't have a sniffer and I don't wish to connect my PC directly to the cable modem. I suppose I could connect my laptop to the cable modem, temporarily, and use some sniffer software (freeware). About all I could do is email my cable modem company with a list of the offenders which are their customers (I hear this is mostly coming from on-net PCs with infected Microsoft IIS running).
Since the viruses hit about a year ago, my cable modem's ACTIVITY LED blinks a lot, as do the WAN lights on my Linksys router. It is said that much of this is ARP packets passing through the DOCSIS cable modem (since it seems to act like a dumb bridge). THere are occasional IP packets thrown in too.
I wonder if there's a way to see what IP is throwing all of the ARP packets, given I don't have a sniffer and I don't wish to connect my PC directly to the cable modem. I suppose I could connect my laptop to the cable modem, temporarily, and use some sniffer software (freeware). About all I could do is email my cable modem company with a list of the offenders which are their customers (I hear this is mostly coming from on-net PCs with infected Microsoft IIS running).
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