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Posted by Frankster on August 20, 2005, 10:47 am
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Since it is only traffic within your own system, you might as well unblock
it and find out.
-Frank
> I've noticed recently that anytime I try to download a file of any size
> (> 2MB), I tend to lose my internet connectivity. I can *always* solve
> this problem by unplugging my cable modem and letting it sit for a few
> seconds before plugging it back in.
>
> I'm also using Windows XP firewall, and recently started logging to the
> pfirewall.log file just to see if it might be a firewall-related issue.
>
> Here is an excerpt from that file:
>
> 2005-08-20 07:51:02 DROP UDP 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255 6386 162 122 - -
> - - - - - RECEIVE
> 2005-08-20 07:51:07 DROP UDP 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255 6387 162 122 - -
> - - - - - RECEIVE
> 2005-08-20 07:51:12 DROP UDP 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255 6388 162 122 - -
> - - - - - RECEIVE
> 2005-08-20 07:51:12 DROP UDP 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255 6389 162 145 - -
> - - - - - RECEIVE
> 2005-08-20 07:51:14 DROP UDP 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.255 6390 162 143 - -
> - - - - - RECEIVE
>
>
> The only thing that concerns me is the seemingly sequential ports that
> are being dropped - 6386, 6387, 6388, etc...
>
> Could all of this somehow be related to my problem downloading?
>
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