at a terminal window to see if the interface is really idle. I have installed conky on 9.10 and on my interface that is truly idle (no link light) and I get 0k/s in and 0k/s out. I suspect that running tcpdump will show that there really is some traffic on your interface.
You may want to try to:
sudo tcpdump -i eth0
at a terminal window to see if the interface is really idle. I have installed conky on 9.10 and on my interface that is truly idle (no link light) and I get 0k/s in and 0k/s out. I suspect that running tcpdump will show that there really is some traffic on your interface.