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linksys router and ip 192.168.2.255
so my roomate and i have been using a linksys etherfast router for more than a year now (model BEFSR41) and through my sygate personal firewall pro logs, i discovered that my machine has been sending a huge amount of information to the ip 192.168.2.255. now i understand that this is a broadcast ip, but before very recently i was neither sending nor recieving information from this ip address. i was just wondering if and how this personal intranet ip could be hijacked from an external source and used to get information/attack computers on my home network. i updated the firmware of the router 3 days ago to prevent lan-side DoS exploits that i read about in a forum, but after reconfiguring my router these strange communications with 192.168.2.255 started. is there a problem, or am i just being paranoid?
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