Very Computer

Hiya!

I've got a quick question, hope someone can shed some light on this
one.

I'm very new to linux, and am playing around with the system.  I've
recently gotten it to hook up to a network to access the internet.
However, this network is a corporate intranet (ssshhh!  don't tell
anyone!).  Since the network is a Windows domain network, I don't know
what my linux box is transmitting thru the wires besides HTTP
requests.  I don't want my machine to inadvertently transmit/broadcast
extra stuff that may jam up the network, or worse - bring it down.

I'm using Redhat 7.1 with all everything installed (server proggies
i.e. Apache, dev stuff, etc).

Is there some utility I can use to check what I'm transmitting thru
the network (ala netstat)?  Any programs that by default uses network
connections to broadcast stuff?

Thanks!

direstraits

There won't be anything more than what the windows bocen are pumping
out.

Quote:> I'm using Redhat 7.1 with all everything installed (server proggies
> i.e. Apache, dev stuff, etc).

Most of the stuff installed are listeners, the SMB stuff can be
constant chatter though.

Quote:> Is there some utility I can use to check what I'm transmitting thru
> the network (ala netstat)?  Any programs that by default uses network
> connections to broadcast stuff?

tcpdump useful to see whats is on the wire. Depending on the setup you
may find alot of junk being tranmitted.

karl.

Sorry, but what's SMB?

Quote:

> > Is there some utility I can use to check what I'm transmitting thru
> > the network (ala netstat)?  Any programs that by default uses network
> > connections to broadcast stuff?

> tcpdump useful to see whats is on the wire. Depending on the setup you
> may find alot of junk being tranmitted.

Thanks a lot for your input, karl... much appreciated. :)

direstraits

Quote:

> karl.

It one of the collective names for windows network traffic, CIFS is
another.  It's very complex and on most unix systems it's dealt with
by samba.

karl.