I have a software firewall on trial. One penetration attempt the program
consistently blocks is from IP 192.168.0.105. This attempt is incessant and for
the moment I've turned off the reports. However, if it's a legitimate probe, I
need to let it through. Our router IP is 192.168.0.101, so that's close to the
"culprit". So, how do I determine whence cometh the IP address the firewall
doesn't like?
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One of the common annoyances with software firewalls is exactly this: that
you may get repeated notification of access attempts, with no real sense of
where they're really coming from, and whether or not they're legitimate.
In this case I can't really say whether it's legitimate.
But I can say that the IP address is closer than you think.
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