[ILUG] Re: Irish Rail wi-fi

[Brendan Minish]

probably just Quake tourneys between various train drivers ;-) 

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 08:19 +0000, Ian Spillane wrote:
> No QUAKE packets this morning.
> 
> 
> On 30 November 2012 20:09, Ewan Oughton <ewan at oughton.org> wrote:
> 
> > If anyone encounters this again, a packet capture might provide some
> > illumination.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Ewan
> >
> >
> > On 30 November 2012 12:02, Ian Spillane <iantheteacher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is this a clue?
> > >
> > http://www.corrupteddatarecovery.com/Port/26000udp-Port-Type-quake-quake.asp
> > >
> > > Although my netbook was easily able to reek havoc on the train network
> > > accidentally running a test dhcp-type service (I won't say exactly what
> > for
> > > obvious reasons - and it was an accident).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 30 November 2012 18:13, Michael Jonker <michael at openpoint.ie> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I attended the 'Hack the City' workshops a while back and on my way back
> > >> on the train I was playing with some of the 'educational' tools we were
> > >> shown. Not an expert here, but I saw a lot of packets named 'QUAKE' as
> > well
> > >> - just assumed some of the lads in the carriage where playing the
> > popular
> > >> game online!
> > >>
> > >> Apparently not if you are seeing the same thing as well.
> > >>
> > >> Very mysterious.
> > >>
> > >> Michael Jonker
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 30/11/12 15:58, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On the return leg the same thing is happening, and it didn't happen
> > when
> > >>> I connected to the eduroam network in TCD. It's not 20 KiB/s, it's more
> > >>> like 125 KiB/s: gnome-system-monitor truncates the graph labels. Also
> > it
> > >>> is clear that this is just traffic between my machine and the wifi
> > >>> router (it starts immediately on connection, and before I've validated
> > >>> via the web; it's consistent and doesn't vary when broader connectivity
> > >>> dropos off).
> > >>>
> > >>> I've tried killing off all programs that might be connecting to the
> > net,
> > >>> and even services. Nothing seems to work: killing the dhclient daemon
> > >>> seemed to do the job but that was probably only because it shut down
> > the
> > >>> connection!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Brendan
> > >>>
> > >>
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