JackClark

Sniffer showed now unusual traffic, hardware problem perhaps?

HHxx

NAI Virus Scan is known to cause this behaviour

JackClark

Did cross my mind.

Jeff Wiltshire

Does it actually feel slow to use the network ?

JackClark

Nope. All seems fine and sniffer sees no unusual amounts of traffic. Looks like the packets are only reported on the machine and never leave it. That many packets even in 9 hours must be next to impossible.

Jeff Wiltshire

It's got to be a bug in the driver.....even if it was sending that much data to the loopback you machine would crawl.

What NIC are you using ??


Jeff

ptholt

off topic i know but thats a nice silvery desktop effect, which theme/scheme is that?
getting bored of blue and not changed os for a little while

JackClark

In the appearance tab from desktop properties choose silver. Rather nice.

Not sure about the card. Have disabled the built in one - IBM Insmellystation M series. Device manager reports Intel(R)PRO/100+ Management Adapter.

Found one person using google with the same symptoms, otherwise complete blank.

ptholt

top man jack, just the change i needed till a whole new os comes along in five mins time