On Fri, 31 May 2013, Dan062 <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
A VPS (hosted by a local hosting company) shows actual steady incoming traffic of about 18-20 Mb/hr to the server when the server was actually TURNED OFF !!(at which time the ip is not reacheable and fails ping) .. How is that possible??? Any one has any idea how do hosting company actually measure the traffic to a VPS??
18/8*1024*1024/3600 == 655 bytes per second. That's well within the range of pings, port scans, and other random traffic. So I guess that they count all traffic to the IP address regardless of whether the host is responding to ARP. Of course for a VPS they may even have ARP entries locked in the switch or something, so the port could see the traffic without giving an ARP response. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/