WAN and LAN Traffic Graph at Idle
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Just having a look at my WAN traffic with nothing attached to the router, I am seeing the following on WAN and LAN, is this normal? Some kind of background noise?
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@packetpirate I assume if you move your mouse on over that its bits/s not Bytes..
Yeah there is always going to be noise.. Wan if no inbound to your wan IP, you prob going to see arps from others on the same network from your isp..
Same could go for your lan side, are you saying nothing on there at all no other clients - there is your box for sure I take it? Or you connecting in via something other lan lan. But even if you were not loading the page, there is going to be arp and broadcast and multicast, even your switch if sending stp etc..
If your curious I would sniff on the interfaces via the diagnostic menu, packet capture and see what kind of traffic your seeing.
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@johnpoz
They are actually Bytes, so ~6 kB/s, which is why the values seemed "higher" than I would have expected.I did a packet capture on the WAN side and it seems to be mostly ARP requests from IPs owned by my ISP: "ARP, Request who-has ... tell ..." Looks like about 10 requests of length 46 per second, seems like a lot, what do you think?
On the LAN side it looks like some "loop prevention" packets being sent from my switch.
So, all seems to be accounted for, I just expected the values to be lower. Thanks for the tip to capture the packets!
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@packetpirate said in WAN and LAN Traffic Graph at Idle:
Looks like about 10 requests of length 46 per second
I get more than that ;) heheh
Just checked and about 32 a second worth of arp.. Its horrible the isp should really limit that, its not hard to do.. I hit my 100 packet limit of my capture in like 3 seconds.
