Re: What does "ICMP to 224.0.0.2" mean?

From: George Hewitt (nospam_at_domain.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:46:19 GMT

>
> "Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) is trying to broadcast an ICMP Type
> 10 (Router Solicitation) packet to [224.0.0.2]. Do you want to
> allow this program to access the network?"

I'm not the one (sorry) to fully answer and provide a solution, but...

ICMP is the family name for 'ping,' a way of checking that a connection is
alive. You can see that Google's server is alive by opening up a command
prompt and typing (no quotes) "ping google.com"
You should get 3 responses, showing how long they took etc.

Router Solicitation basically means that windows is looking for a router; I
assume this is just one way of finding an Internet connection. I'm not a
Windows techie so can't fill you in on the details.

 224.0.0.2 will be an IP address, it might be a subnet, hopefully someone
else can clear that up.

The picture it gives is that windows is looking for a means of connecting to
the internet, and is probably harmless. As another reply says, software
firewalls complain all the time and I've found (through installing such
firewalls for non-techie friends) that it makes people panic over many
things which just aren't important at all.

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