The stuff on the lo bothers me.
This is not like you would have hardware problem.
The loopback is done in software.

So unless you have a screwed up TCP/IP stack (part of a kernel) 
I would suspect outside "intervention".
It is possible someone is sending you packets
in order to overload some buffer in your stack.

However if these just happened after you upgraded kernel.
I would try to reset the counters and boot up the old kernel
and see if these problems appear.

Another option would be to go to the next kernel 2.2.14.

I do not know if you compiled 2.2.13 of gotten it from some
distro but you may want to try to compile the old kernel with
and without optimization and run these for a while.

good luck

The Wolf

-----Original Message-----
From: Amir Aliabadi [mailto:amir@aliabadi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 10:33 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Network Errors


I have been getting a probe on port 1080 from time to time.
No sniffing with a sniffer.
I'm planning up adding to my ipchain rules.
Could it be (is it likely to be) a physical thing (bad cable/hub/card) or
does something stink around here?