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OpLan · 23-03-2006, 21:04

hi folks..
I was doing something offline last night when I noticed traffic on my cable modem.I thought for a long time that either spyware or some annoying updater was blabbing to daddy but I found nothing..
I eventually went to NTL to see if they were fiddling with things,and as they were having country-wide problems,I left it at that.
However..26 hours later,and I still have this constant conversation between my pc and the net.
I'm afraid network knowledge is still dennis wheatley mumbo jumbo black majik to me..but I downloaded a proggy called 'Show Traffic'
http://demosten.com/showtraf/
and it is showing traffic to and from "cache2.ntli.net" ..port 520 is listed and a trawl on the net for info led me to a thread on this board
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/ar...php/t-391.html
quoting BBKing
"It means that ntl networks have left RIP running on a cable interface, which is bad practice. They need to set the cable interface you're on to Passive in the RIP config."
I think this is virtually identical to my problem.
Is it going to affect online gaming?
How long is this likely to persist?
Thanks in advance for any help offered..

23-03-2006, 21:04	#156
OpLan Inactive Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: middlesbrough Services: NTL 2Mb Posts: 3	Possible consequence of last nights disruption? hi folks.. I was doing something offline last night when I noticed traffic on my cable modem.I thought for a long time that either spyware or some annoying updater was blabbing to daddy but I found nothing.. I eventually went to NTL to see if they were fiddling with things,and as they were having country-wide problems,I left it at that. However..26 hours later,and I still have this constant conversation between my pc and the net. I'm afraid network knowledge is still dennis wheatley mumbo jumbo black majik to me..but I downloaded a proggy called 'Show Traffic' http://demosten.com/showtraf/ and it is showing traffic to and from "cache2.ntli.net" ..port 520 is listed and a trawl on the net for info led me to a thread on this board http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/ar...php/t-391.html quoting BBKing "It means that ntl networks have left RIP running on a cable interface, which is bad practice. They need to set the cable interface you're on to Passive in the RIP config." I think this is virtually identical to my problem. Is it going to affect online gaming? How long is this likely to persist? Thanks in advance for any help offered..