[WT-support] Internet access at launch.

Laurent HAAS - F6FVY f6fvy at free.fr
Thu Sep 28 00:58:42 CEST 2006


Hi Patrick and all !

Olivier F5MZN a écrit :

> On the other hand, WT also opens an UDP/IP socket (port 9871 by default) 
> to communicate with either wtDxTelnet or the other computers of the LAN. 
> This is the default behaviour if you have not disabled "Ethernet 
> network" by yourself in the "Interfaces configuration" window. This is 
> why your Security System is warning that "this program is making request 
> on Internet".

To complete Olivier's request, most of the "personnal" firewalls allow 
to set the IP range of a LAN (to distinguish them from real "internet" 
access) to avoid such alert messages, which are pretty annoying.

73

Laurent



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