Re: unknown ip address in wallwatcher

From: goofy (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:31:50 +0200

> 2005/10/27 00:05:14.24 I tcp 24.216.183.13 6346 192.168.1.52 2010

from the WW documentation :

  An Inbound log record means an unsolicited message arrived at your Router,
and was discarded. The Router only allows responses to Outbound messages to
pass through to your computers, except when you are using a DMZ computer.
The fact that the Router has recorded Inbounds is cause for comfort, not
alarm: it caught, blocked, and discarded those records, so they never
reached or harmed your computers.

    The WAN and subnet addresses are used by WW and WRV when you decide to
not display Inbounds to the WAN or LAN. Any Inbound traffic that the Router
redirects to the DMZ or port forwards to a specified local computer will
show that computer's LAN address in the "Local IP Address" column. All
other Inbound traffic will show the WANaddress in that column. If you're
not using a DMZ or port forwarding, all Inbounds should show the WAN
address. Everything with a WAN address was blocked by the Router;
everything with a LAN address was passed through to the specified machine.

Maybe your router does this port forwarding.

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