Off Topic - Block iCloud -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 10/04/13 05:58, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 10Apr2013 05:35, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> | On 09/04/13 21:07, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | >In fact, that's 1MB per second (12Mbps!) That should be glaringly obvious
> | >with trafshow or similar tools. Which will show you the IP and port involved.
> |
> | Yes and the system sometimes runs a lot faster than specified. I yum
> | installed trafshow, never ran across that application before, and it
> | works as expected on p4p1 but that not where it needs to be, I need
> | to find how to point it at the router traffic. It seems that would
> | show me why my efforts so far have not helped?
>
> Well, you could get your DHCP server to make your linux box the
> default router. Then set you're linux box's default route to be the
> router by hand, and tell it to forward packets:
>
>    echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> Then next time the Mac (or whatever) connects to your LAN you should
> be able to watch the traffic. Of course, you'll also be burdened
> with forwarding all the LAN traffic across your linux box, but for
> purposes of debugging.

I could use another F-18 box ...

>
> And of course, Macs are BSD UNIX. Run trafshow there! You might
> have to install MacPorts (or Fink or HomeBrew etc) to get trafshow
> installed, but any Mac _wants_ that anyway!

I try to avoid messing with her Mac. I'm not familiar enough with it and 
I can't get close enough to the screen due to the physical arrangement, 
vision problems, 'ah the golden years!'

> And of course you could hand set the default route on the Mac for
> debugging purposes just as with any UNIX box, and avoid mucking
> with the router DHCP advertisements until you want to frib with
> iPhones etc.
>
> Cheers,


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