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mikenolan7
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Odd Packets

I saw something I haven't seen before today. For several hours, my firewall was blocking incoming packets, all to the same high tcp port. They came several at a time, from many different IP addresses, many different source ports. Nowhere near enough packets to be trying to affect my connection. I didn't see anything unusual outbound from my network. I shut down my ISP connection and started it back up to get a new IP, and haven't seen any more. Anyone know what it was?


Mchart
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join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL
Sounds like bittorrent traffic. Were you using bittorrent earlier by any chance?

mikenolan7
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join:2005-06-07
Torrance, CA
I've never used bittorrent. Makes sense though, probably whoever had that IP before me was.
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