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| Author: | jclarkv [ Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Seeing spikes in IPv6 traffic every 2 hours |
Disclaimer: I'm new to Linode and Linux, but am trying to run a Minecraft server for my son. I've managed to get one up and running thanks to a great StackScript I found by 'jsmith'. I've begun adding some other functionality like MySQL and Apache 2 to the linode, but have now started seeing spikes in IPv6 traffic that occurs every two hours. I've place an image here: https://skitch.com/jclarkv/8y4f4/linode-dashboard-redmaven Is this anything I need to try to fix or stop?[/url] Thanks in advance for any insight. I did try to search the forums but came up empty. jclarkv |
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| Author: | caker [ Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:34 pm ] |
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That is IPv6 local LAN chatter and is not counted against your monthly transfer. You can ignore it. -Chris |
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| Author: | db3l [ Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:35 pm ] |
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Not sure what might have changed recently, but personally I'd just ignore that. Notice the scale - you're talking less than 100 bits/s, so it just looks like a "spike" since the overall scale of the graph is so low. If you generated even one or two regular IPv6 connections, I suspect that entire graph would turn into a flat line near 0 :-) If you've recently enabled IPv6 on that host you might just be seeing the result of occasional router announcements or some such. If you wanted you could trace the traffic (e.g., leave a tcpdump running on your internal interface) to deduce the exact packet, but if it were me I probably wouldn't bother for any operational reason - just if I were purely satisfying my curiosity. (For what it's worth the Priv In on one of my nodes pretty much has the same pattern) -- David |
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| Author: | jclarkv [ Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Thanks! |
Great answers. Thank you both. jcv |
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