Why is my router activity light going nuts?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

What ports do you have forwarded? If any check the appropriate logs in 
/var/logs.
Duane Morin wrote:
> Lately I've noticed that the activity light on my linksys router is constantl
> y 
> blinking.  We're talking more than once a second, even when I'm not active on
>  
> the machine.  I would have thought at first that it's just viruses trying to 
> get in, but the router logs show an occasional hit on port 80, 23/25, or some
>  
> random ones. It's not like I'm seeing megs worth of incoming access logs.  
> Should I be worried?  The actual lights that are specific to the 1 connection
>  
> I have to the box (link/act, full/col and 100) are all lit, fairly constantly
> . 
>  The ones I'm referring to don't seem associated with any of the 4 ports, 
> which leads me to believe that it's incoming hits on the router.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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