FIrst, it looks like the probem is my linux desktop. traffic going all over the place when i am doing essentially nothing. and I have confirmed the ip addresses of my windows computers in the log i created on my desktop. explain how that can be unless wireshark has put my port into promiscuous mode. I am getting MANY ip addresses that are not mine, talking to my desktop ip address. just going throught he first part and eyeballing for different ip addresses (I am sure I missed some), maybe 2% of the whole file, I found the following: cat wireshark|grep 162.159.134.234|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 23.220.246.152|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 3.233.158.26|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 184.25.113.134|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 3.233.158.25|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 151.101.3.52|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 207.65.32.79|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 3.233.158.25|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 18.206.77.82|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 98.87.185.133|wc -l cat wireshark|grep 18.160.225.46|wc -l 75 852 2589 63 2813 531 408 2813 13 14 152 if wireshark or some other existing tool cannot go through my listing and extract all the ip addresses, i will work on that, or do other research to find what malware could have infected my computer. question: could it be accidental or malicious p2p filesharing was started on my computer? how would I look for the task running it and kill it and prevent it from restarting? Carey
On 09/23/2025 12:17 PM CDT James Knott <james.knott@jknott.net> wrote:
On 9/23/25 13:09, CAREY SCHUG wrote:
comcast<-->monoprice 8 port gigabit switch<-->monoprice 8 prt gb switch
I have no idea about what that switch can do. Since you don't want to use one of your Cisco switches, then buy a cheap managed switch and follow my instructions. You should be able to find one for around $20 - $30.