From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mystery network traffic
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:17:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw0r82g46P7aRpCNTffG0s9PY=48Vb-fzwFOxzJtApeiaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533CB5C3-8FCC-44EE-9B25-7D8A18925822@antarean.org>
>>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.
I had no idea. Thank you Joost.
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-30 11:17 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 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2016-09-30 11:17 ` Grant [this message]
2016-09-30 18:53 ` Mick
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