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by suryanarayanan.g

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I have bos2k box , when i take my summary of usages and traffice utilized from the ISA SRV Report , I get a lot of IP Addresses which is not in my local Table and Mask

for exampe:

MY Local Family : 190.168.1.0 to ...
Mask 255.255.255.0

I also get reports on : 61.11.0.0 , 61.11.0.1, 5, 10, 15, etc.,

Could anyone advice me on this

thanks
Suryanarayanan

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by fossil

Items like the 61.11.0.1 are attempts to contact/connect to your machine. You should be running a Firewall -- either hardware or softrware. For personal use, I use & recommend ZoneAlarm ( http://www.zonealarm.com/ ). It's free for personal use &works well. You can get some idea of "who owns" the IP by going to www.arin.net & doing a whois search on theIP.

Get used to these things thoug -- there are a lot of people running port scanner software or file sharing programs that look for machines to connect to. Be safe & get some Firewall Protection.

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