John F. Woods writes:

>According to my modem lights and netstat -picmp, someone out there in IP land
>seems to be constantly pinging my system (not a flood ping, thank goodness).
>Is there an existing program that can be used to figure out the source of
>these packets?  I assume I can knock something together using BPF, but I am
>hoping that someone here has already solved this problem...

	You're running PPP, yes?

	Then try "tcpdump -i ppp0 icmp" and see who it is.

Cheers,
Phil
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Phillip F Knaack               flipk@iastate.edu
Database Programmer, NCREMP    Student Development Group
ISU Extension                  Project Vincent, Iowa State University