Strange IP on firewall

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Gromit
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Strange IP on firewall

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One of the PC's on our network is connecting to an IP 255.255.255.255 as you can see it does not look legit. Any ideas as to what it could be? Spyware? Virus?

We are using a Routerboard as a firewall, works wonders.
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255.255.255.255 is a broadcast address IIRC.
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Gromit wrote:One of the PC's on our network is connecting to an IP 255.255.255.255 as you can see it does not look legit. Any ideas as to what it could be? Spyware? Virus?

We are using a Routerboard as a firewall, works wonders.
That'll be a broadcast address, nothing to worry about.
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Ok so it a "limited broadcast address". Any reason why this specific PC would be doing that?
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