From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mystery network traffic
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:14:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533CB5C3-8FCC-44EE-9B25-7D8A18925822@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1eb8wZeTQ9BFPEb8=2chvOXkpJ-oi+wgcTLz_Hhn7acA@mail.gmail.com>
On September 29, 2016 9:47:27 PM GMT+02:00, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>I was watching cbm on one of my machines and it showed a lot more
>traffic going in and out over lo than over both of the two real
>interfaces. Is that normal? One of those two real interfaces is
>completely unused and shows zeros in cbm all the time.
>
>- Grant
Yes, I would consider this normal.
What is running on that machine?
'lo' is used for all traffic between localhost and localhost.
IOW, all internal communications, like apache talking to the database if both running on the same host.
Or postfix to amavis to postfix before mail gets delivered.
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Joost
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 19:47 [gentoo-user] {OT} Mystery network traffic Grant
2016-09-29 21:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-09-30 3:14 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2016-09-30 11:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant
2016-09-30 18:53 ` Mick
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