Hi Jos,
Thanks for your reply. I figured the same observation too. But, what do u think could have such a loop to itself? Kinda weird right?
Thanks once again.
Dennis
>>Hi Experts,
>>
>>I usually run NETSTAT at the DOS command prompt, with the '-a' option ( netstat -a ).
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>>The results have a coupe of lines which are 'disturbing'..
>>
>>
>>Active Connections
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>> Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
>> TCP dyl:epmap dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:microsoft-ds dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:990 dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:1043 localhost:27015 ESTABLISHED
>> TCP dyl:5679 dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:7438 dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:27015 dyl:0 LISTENING
>> TCP dyl:27015 localhost:1043 ESTABLISHED
>> TCP dyl:netbios-ssn dyl:0 LISTENING
>> UDP dyl:microsoft-ds *:*
>> UDP dyl:isakmp *:*
>> UDP dyl:1044 *:*
>>
>>
>>If you notice, there are two lines with ESTABLISHED states. What does this mean? This is so even without any network/internet connection.
>>
>>What should I do? Thanks for any help.
>>
>>Dennis
>
>Dennis,
>
>The two established connections are to your own computer as identified by "localhost". The localhost means "this computer" and has IP 127.0.0.1. You will also notice that the two established connections loop back to each other via the port numbers. I suspect this is probably ok but you could investigate further to see what process / program specifically is using these ports. See also -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost