Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
>> reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist.  The requests are from
>> and to very high port numbers.  This must have to do with the p2p
>> software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
>> creepy.  Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> Thats likely to be normal, a lot of bittorrent clients these days support
> finding local peers, so its normal that they would send out queries on your
> local network.
>
> I know deluge has an option to enable/disable this, however i dont recall if
> transmission has this option.
>
> - Nick

Thanks Nick, I'll continue my download.

- Grant