1) Please forgive my ignorance
2) Please don't die laughing (I'd hate to have that on my conscious)
3) Answer politely if you can.
4) I understand most network/computer things, I am not a programmer, network admin, web designer or other, (well not anymore) I however still get curious.
Here is the story, I bought a cheap $29 Netgear wireless router for my apt so my work computer and laptop can share the broadband. Since it is wireless I have given acccess (encrypted) to a 2 friends that live in close apartments, (they don't use it much). So still being curious, I got a program called Look @ Lan, very basic but cool and it lets me know when or more like if they actually get on the network. So here is the weird thing. By default it checks 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255, which is actually more addresses than I even have enabled. However, today, and just for gigglesl, I asked it to check 192.168.1.44 to 192.168.5.1. So it runs its check and boom like 20 ip addresses (somewhat randome) are there, all above those that I have told the router to assign, some go on and off about every 5 minutes some stay on, I have "scanned" the online addresses and found that they all have Port 21 (FTP) and Telenet, forgot the port, active. I suspect this is the router's "overhead" , packet testing, forwarding, preventing collisons etc, etc" that voodoo that it do. However, I am just curious if someone has a bit more accurate or interesting (hopefully accurate) explanation? I appreciate the time you spent reading the email and the time you spent responding to it. Thanks. T3surfer.
2) Please don't die laughing (I'd hate to have that on my conscious)
3) Answer politely if you can.
4) I understand most network/computer things, I am not a programmer, network admin, web designer or other, (well not anymore) I however still get curious.
Here is the story, I bought a cheap $29 Netgear wireless router for my apt so my work computer and laptop can share the broadband. Since it is wireless I have given acccess (encrypted) to a 2 friends that live in close apartments, (they don't use it much). So still being curious, I got a program called Look @ Lan, very basic but cool and it lets me know when or more like if they actually get on the network. So here is the weird thing. By default it checks 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255, which is actually more addresses than I even have enabled. However, today, and just for gigglesl, I asked it to check 192.168.1.44 to 192.168.5.1. So it runs its check and boom like 20 ip addresses (somewhat randome) are there, all above those that I have told the router to assign, some go on and off about every 5 minutes some stay on, I have "scanned" the online addresses and found that they all have Port 21 (FTP) and Telenet, forgot the port, active. I suspect this is the router's "overhead" , packet testing, forwarding, preventing collisons etc, etc" that voodoo that it do. However, I am just curious if someone has a bit more accurate or interesting (hopefully accurate) explanation? I appreciate the time you spent reading the email and the time you spent responding to it. Thanks. T3surfer.
