Is it normal to have 2000 tcp connections?

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Update your antivirus and antispyware etc, then unhook from the internet. Boot into safe mode, then run the antivirus and antispyware. The safe mode part is important

2000 is way too damn much. Using the netstat -b command in cmd prompt, it shows 2 for me, and it's just Opera

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Update your antivirus and antispyware etc, then unhook from the internet. Boot into safe mode, then run the antivirus and antispyware. The safe mode part is important

2000 is way too damn much. Using the netstat -b command in cmd prompt, it shows 2 for me, and it's just Opera

oh netstat on the computer! I don't have control/access to it. And i don't really care if it's infected as long as it doesn't bring the rest of the network down...so if there's no way of limiting connections by client i guess i'll have to tell them to check their comp...blah...

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primexx

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:blink: WTF dude??? Your joking right???

read the second part: as long as it doesn't take the rest of the lan down.

(oh and none of the computers are actually networked together, so i should be safe...correct me if i'm wrong please?)

So...any way to limit connections by client???

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i generally have around upwards of 3000 tcp connections, but when running heavy torrent transfers, which is usually 24/7 (maxing my connection bandwidth), however when not doing those activities i might have 20-50 connections going on (web/terminal services traffic)

so .. if your not using p2p, you probably have some spyware/virus going on.

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i generally have around upwards of 3000 tcp connections, but when running heavy torrent transfers, which is usually 24/7 (maxing my connection bandwidth), however when not doing those activities i might have 20-50 connections going on (web/terminal services traffic)

so .. if your not using p2p, you probably have some spyware/virus going on.

the other possibility, i guess, is that dd-wrt's p2p blocking doesn't actually do what it says, i don't doubt the possibility.

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get a router!

IF YOU HAVE INTERNET YOU SHOULD HAVE A ROUTER!!!

unless you already got one but it sure don't sound like it!

.......ummm yea try reading that one more time

as for the OP, most torrents and p2p have a way of getting past firewalls and routers. they randomize the ports they go through and can encrypt their traffic. even if you block all the ports except for 80 they can still work

i know of no way to guarantee that torrent and p2p traffic won't work. maybe budman knows :huh:

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get a router!

IF YOU HAVE INTERNET YOU SHOULD HAVE A ROUTER!!!

unless you already got one but it sure don't sound like it!

facepalm

there's no single or even a few recurring IPs

so let me get this straight, one of your machines has ~2000 tcp connections, but hardly any of them (if any) are showing up in the active connections list?

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primexx

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so let me get this straight, one of your machines has ~2000 tcp connections, but hardly any of them (if any) are showing up in the active connections list?

oh I see the list, but there's no single IP it's connecting to, and I haven't found a feasible way of analyzing a thousand or so unique IPs from a copy+paste of the list yet.

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