RE: multicast connection trials from a home machine - is it regular?

["Cushing, David" <David.Cushing () hitachisoftware com>]

> > > > From the firewall log:
> > > "blocked: Out ICMP;Router 
> > > solicitation;localhost->224.0.0.2;Owner: Tcpip
> > > Kernel Driver"
> > > That is done (as the first outbound communication) every time 
> > > the machine is
> > > connected via dialup to the Internet. Is that a logical part 
> > > of the process?

I used to see this type of traffic when using MSN dialup from a Win98 box.

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