Re: Alexa,Mcast what are they?

From: nickd@nospam.demon.co.uk
Date: 01/08/02 

From: nickd@nospam.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:59:26 GMT

pasjfest@snet.net wrote:
> Alexa,Mcast what are they?, TPF told me that my computer wants to call
> 239.255.255.250 port 1900 ssdp Mcast.net.

MCast is a multicast protocol, which basically means the packets aren't
passed to a particular computer, but to all computers on a network that
wishes to receive them. Without researching it this looks related to the
plug and play service that is such a weakness in Windows XP. Check that
out, and if it is, do some reading up on the problems related to it :) 

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