Re: ?router problem-blocking ports 137-8

From: JClark (johnmc1937REMOVE_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/29/03 

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:19:36 GMT

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:08:42 GMT, Lars M. Hansen
<badnews@hansenonline.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:28:52 GMT, JClark spoketh
>
>>DP:
>>Apologies for my ignorance, but could you be a bit more specific about
>>how I accomplish that...change the black hole address?
>>
>>It's intersting to me that the firewall never showed this activity
>>before, and now it's almost constant when watching the firewall log in
>>real time. There is a firewall rule which I must have written some
>>time ago tha blocks traffic to IANA on ports 137 and 138. Maybe I
>>don't need that rule?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Jack
>
>DP's confused.
>
>This has nothing to do with IANA, it's simply listed in such a way in
>the IP address database to indicate that this is range of IP addresses
>for used in private networks. No traffic is going "to" IANA, those
>packets you see are simply Windows broadcast packets. One (or more) of
>the computers on your network are looking for other computers on your
>network, and that's the way Microsofts broadcast-based networking works.
>
>If you want to turn it off (which is not a good idea if you are sharing
>files/printers on a LAN without a WINS server), check out the following
>article:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q160/1/77.asp&NoWebContent=1
>
>If you set the value to "2", your Windows computer(s) should stop using
>broadcasts to find other computers. I set the node-type to p-node
>(peer-to-peer) using the DHCP server at work, and the amount of Windows
>Networking broadcasts have dropped to almost zero.
>
>As always, be extremely careful when messing with the registry. Make any
>edits at your own risk ...
>
>Lars M. Hansen
>http://www.hansenonline.net
>(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)
Lars, Thanks!
I'm beginning to understand. I have only a single computer with cable
modem, so maybe Linksys is looking for other computers on the network
and not finding any. Maybe my Linksys is not configured properly, but
I've gone over their manual and settings (internet site to change)
lots of times, and I think it's right.
I'm confortable with computers in general and have no problem or fear
about editing the registry, but I couldn't get to the site you
indicated above. Connection refused to support@microsoft.com
I had no problem connecting to your website, which is very
interesting, by the way.
File and print sharing are disabled.
Thanks again.

Jack

Jack

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