Huge incoming traffic from stopped nodes

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Nodes possibly wasting bandwidth?

I’m possibly observing wasteful node behavior. I have an internet connection delivered through an ISP-provided device in bridge mode to my Mikrotik router. A day and a half ago I took down the box that was running 500 nodes from that internet connection. I just checked the Mikrotik router and noticed it’s receiving (RX) 4mbps and transmitting (TX) 0mbps. I looked into it and it’s UDP traffic to the port range I had set up for port forwarding to the nodes I was running. So then it seems that t…