Excessive internet connections

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Carl

I have a small home network with dialup connection. When
disconnecting from the internet, the computer will dial
the internet again, and keep dialing all the time. I can
not find the apps responsible for this. I do see that the
first thing it does is send info to 224.0.0.9, get
something back, and stay on until I disconnect, and do it
over again, in an endless loop.

Carl
 
No Joy with the spyware scanner's, or virus scans.
Coincidentially, this started right after I did a windows
update. This was on two computers.
 
"Carl" said:
I have a small home network with dialup connection. When
disconnecting from the internet, the computer will dial
the internet again, and keep dialing all the time. I can
not find the apps responsible for this. I do see that the
first thing it does is send info to 224.0.0.9, get
something back, and stay on until I disconnect, and do it
over again, in an endless loop.

Carl
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224.0.0.9 isn't a site on the Internet. It's the "RIPv2 multicast
address", which, as I understand it, is used to exchange information
with routers on a local area network. This web page has the technical
details:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1723.txt

I'm sorry, but I don't know what's causing your computer to send to
that address. Windows XP has an optional networking component called
"RIP Listener" which might or might not be involved. Go to Control
Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components |
Networking. If the RIP Listener box is checked, un-check it.

If that doesn't solve the problem, please post a news group reply (not
E-mail) with a copy of your computer's route table made while the
unwanted dialing is occurring:

1. Click Start | Run.

2. Type "cmd" in the box and click OK.

3. Enter this command:

route print >route.txt

4. Copy and paste the contents of file "route.txt" into your reply.
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