Re: Blocked internal polls

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:27:36 -0500

"Brian" <flackb@hotmail.com>
wrote in news:414329b0$0$4193$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be:
> I recently installed Sygate Personal Firewall to provide additional
> protection to my Win XP Pro PC behind a Linksys BEFSR41 NAT router. I
> am puzzled by the fact that my traffic log shows a large number of
> blocked incoming UDP polls from addresses such as 192.168.1.100/101
> and 192.168.0.1. However, it allows outgoing UDP polls from
> 192.168.1.255 and 192.168.0.255. This happens even when the only
> other PC connected to the router is switched off.
>
> If these polls are coming from network cards on my PC, surely they
> expect a response so is it right for the firewall to block them?
>
> Can anyone tell me what this behaviour indicates?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

What happens if you disable UPnP in the router and/or disable the UPnP
NT service in the hosts? 

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