Hello all, this is my first post here. I am not a network person and
this is why I a posting here. Wireshark is running without any problems
but having a hard time understanding why I am being bombarded with ARP
packets.
The end of last week I started to be bombarded with ARP packets. I have
a Comcast Internet Cable connection. I have a slow 3.5MB/sec connection.
I'm suppose to get up to 6mb/sec but that is another story by it's self.
I am running on Windows XP SP2 and current on all updates. The cable
lite on my modem, for displaying traffic, is just about solidly lit as
if downloading a large file all the time. I traced about 10 seconds with
Wireshark and found that three fourths of the traffic are ARP packets.
My concern is the bandwidth that it must be eating up. I initially
thought that it was a hardware problem on Comcast's network. I called
them and they checked my connection and said all is OK. They did not see
this traffic. On my PC the funny thing is that if I sign in to another
window's XP SP admin user the cable modem lite acts normal again and I
do not see the ARP traffic.
Can any one give me some insight or directions on resolving this
problem. It has to be a problem. I have never seen traffic like this on
any modem I have ever used. Is this the providers problem or my problem
that I could resolve.
I have attached a 10 trace dump to this message. Here is some of my
Network connection information:
Physical Address: 00-00-88-24-2B-BA
IP Address: 69.139.93.171
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 69.139.93.1
DHCP Server: 68.87.64.10
DNS Servers: 68.87.64.146, 68.87.75.194
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