Re: Outgoing multicasts to 224.0.0.x (protocol 46) every 4 seconds; What's this?

From: Steve Duff [MVP] (ergodic@ergodic-systems.com)
Date: 08/10/02 

From: "Steve Duff [MVP]" <ergodic@ergodic-systems.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:06:46 -0700

Protcol 46 is RSVP -- it is used for multicast and streaming
services. These type of broadcasts are normal. You may also be
seeing routing protocol updates which also are normal on 224.0.x.x

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

"Vince C." <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ubBOqZ9PCHA.1672@tkmsftngp12...
> Hi,
>
> My W2K adv. server is outgoing multicast packets to a specific address every
> 4 seconds (this is reported by ZoneAlarm). The destination DNS is
> ALL-SBMS.MCAST.NET.
>
> Does someone have information on this? Is there a glitch in my
> configuration? a trojan? or...?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Vince C.
>
>
>

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