ISP keeps connecting to my port 445

From: Madhur Ahuja (ef_at_df.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:16:03 +0530

Hello

Whenever I connect to my ISP *Reliance India Ltd.*, I keep getting incoming
connections for port 445 from one of their computers, which my firewall
obviously drops. I need to know whether I should do something about this or
this is normal.
I think port 445 is used by Netbios, are they looking my computer for the
shared folers?. Should I drop those connections or just deny them. 

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Madhur Ahuja [madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com]
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