21143 updates, and Re: large number of TX packets on ftp

[Peter Stein]

>> My drive LED lights up in the same way when ftp'ing to /dev/null. What
>> activity is causing it to flicker on and off?

>  Have you checked to make sure nothing is logging to disk?  Recently a
>friend of mine had his masquerade set up to log--that incurred a LOT of HD
>hits (not to mention some rather large log files)

No, that can't be it. I ran ttcp in pattern mode (-s) without changing 
anything and this disk access was completely absent.

Peter Stein
nbi@xnet.com