he wireless LED on my AT&T/Pace 5031NV wireless gateway supplied wth U-Verse has been pegged (blinking so fast it's half-lit) the last 24 hours or so even when there are no wireless devices connected or attempting to connect. The logs don't show anything abnormal except for dropped unknown packets from random IP's all with the same MAC(?) hitting my torrent client port (torrent client not running).
notice Feb 24 12:06:26 IN=br1 MAC=60:fe:20:9e:66:ec SRC=86.81.66.198 DST=99.129.nnn.nnn LEN=129 TTL=112 PROTO=UDP DPT=56880 Drop Unknown Incoming Packet
notice Feb 24 12:06:35 IN=br1 MAC=60:fe:20:9e:66:ec SRC=76.173.176.194 DST=99.129.nnn.nnn LEN=134 TTL=110 PROTO=UDP DPT=56880 Drop Unknown Incoming Packet
What would cause the wireless LED to be pegged like that and how do I tell? Usually it's only this active when a wireless client is downloading something or hitting a large web page.
Possibly coincidently, my WRT54G configured as a wireless bridge on another PC overheated a few hours after this started - it wouldn't work until I left it off for half an hour or more (the LED activity on the Pace gateway still persisted after the WRT54G was unplugged).
-sw