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marrone
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I'm registering constant net traffic from the boinc agent, courtesy of zone alarm. Although it seems pretty minor, is this really necessary, and how can I shut it down? I don't know where it's going...but it's definitely constant.
I don't know why it needs to be constantly sending and receiving something. I would think it should only do that when it's ready to pull down or send a work unit. Ideas? Thanks -Mike |
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Sekerob
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It's localhost traffic thru RPC protocol, port 31416. BOiNCmgr, BOINC and the science constantly communicate with each other....sort of a local net on 1 PC. ZA should get permanent permission or be told to ignore it.
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Former Member
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Hello marrone,
Sekerob is right. The ZA firewall blinks once a second because of the inter-process communication messages being sent. I never did find a way to tell ZA to ignore the local traffic. Lawrence |
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Sekerob
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Glad Sekerob is right ;>) ... I tried ZA a while back and found it lacking the ease and depth of the Kerio PF, so switched back. The answer in KPF was to not log the particular traffic i.e. ignore. It has 4 Basic Alert options.... Trusted Incoming / Outgoing and Internet Incoming / Outgoing. That can be set at application level, but only when KPF has detected it. No manual app additions are allowed for security reasons. There is also an option to define which IP's from which adapters are okay. The 127.0.0.1 (localhost) is hardwired in as trusted.
----------------------------------------Maybe a web search on Zone Alarm Localhost Log..... as i was typing the first words, the Firefox search aid already popped up such a definition. http://www.google.it/search?q=Zone+Alarm+Loca...cial&client=firefox-a
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marrone
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Glad Sekerob is right ;>) ... I tried ZA a while back and found it lacking the ease and depth of the Kerio PF, so switched back. The answer in KPF was to not log the particular traffic i.e. ignore. It has 4 Basic Alert options.... Trusted Incoming / Outgoing and Internet Incoming / Outgoing. That can be set at application level, but only when KPF has detected it. No manual app additions are allowed for security reasons. There is also an option to define which IP's from which adapters are okay. The 127.0.0.1 (localhost) is hardwired in as trusted. Maybe a web search on Zone Alarm Localhost Log..... as i was typing the first words, the Firefox search aid already popped up such a definition. http://www.google.it/search?q=Zone+Alarm+Loca...cial&client=firefox-a Thanks for the answers. As for the firewall, I guess you like kerio petter? I'll check it out. -Mike |
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