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Posted by George Csahanin on October 30, 2007, 9:48 am
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I do need to look at it first-hand. It is 1500 miles away in my dad's house.
The idea about it being to check for connectivity comes from a netgear forum
at their web site, and was confirmed by the moderator. Ugly way to do it.
Generates a huge amount of net traffic.
Thanks for the supportive words.
GeorgeC
> George Csahanin wrote:
>> Malke, I do check back to look for replies. I did smile over the comment
>> about the address, I guess some people don't know about private
>> addresses.
>>
>> But the problem really has me puzzled. The closest I have come to a
>> resolution was somone point out that it is a piece of Netgear wireless
>> adapter software that uses these lookups to check for network connection.
>
> Hi, George - You are an exception because usually if someone doesn't come
> back in a day, that's all she wrote. I honestly don't know the answer to
> your question. The possibility that this is the Netgear checking for
> connectivity isn't completely far-fetched I suppose.
>
> You might want to pull the Netgear and throw another router in there just
> to see what happens.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malke
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