Seeing spikes in IPv6 traffic every 2 hours
I've begun adding some other functionality like MySQL and Apache 2 to the linode, but have now started seeing spikes in IPv6 traffic that occurs every two hours. I've place an image here:
Is this anything I need to try to fix or stop?
Thanks in advance for any insight. I did try to search the forums but came up empty.
jclarkv
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-Chris
If you've recently enabled IPv6 on that host you might just be seeing the result of occasional router announcements or some such. If you wanted you could trace the traffic (e.g., leave a tcpdump running on your internal interface) to deduce the exact packet, but if it were me I probably wouldn't bother for any operational reason - just if I were purely satisfying my curiosity.
(For what it's worth the Priv In on one of my nodes pretty much has the same pattern)
– David
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