IP Addresses

[Castiel]

Sorry guys. I wasn't sure where to post this. Please move if need be.

Hello! I have a question for everyone about IP addresses. I am out at a lake right now. It's where the Bible Camp I'm working at is set up. The internet here sucks. It bounces around to about 4 different places before it gets to us. But there seems to be a possible issue that is making things even worse. It has come to our attention that there is an IP address that downloaded a quarter of a gigabyte every half an hour when the computer is turned on. We are assuming it is a virus. I am currently using Radmin to search IP addresses on the network frequently.

My question is if there is a different way that can actually show me which computer the IP address belongs to, or if there is a way to tell if there is a virus and it's actually creating its own IP address whenever it activates.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys!

 

[grossaffe]

try downloading EtherApe to monitor the network and see where where all the activity is taking place and maybe use WireShark to see what it's communicating with.

 

[Castiel]

try downloading EtherApe to monitor the network and see where where all the activity is taking place and maybe use WireShark to see what it's communicating with.

I tried getting EtherApe but I couldn't get it to work on my laptop. It seems like a really useful program though.

 

[migles]

how about go more deep and check\filter the mac addreses?

 

[Castiel]

how about go more deep and check\filter the mac addreses?

If I did that I would still need to manually go to each computer and figure out their Mac addresses would I not?