Author Topic: How to stop broadcasts/muticasts?  (Read 4021 times)

bs27975

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How to stop broadcasts/muticasts?
« on: February 05, 2014, 09:20:04 PM »
Any way to stop any broadcasts / multicasts coming from / going to the tv vpn adapter?

Routing is supposed to stop all such, but it seems some unnecessary / irrelevant traffic is still going over the link.

e.g. 224.0.0.2 - may be a router solicitation for its neighbours, but nothing has any business soliciting neighbours up that pipe. It's got a gateway, and that's all it needs to know. And vice versa. e.g. Zero igmp packets should be floating around to / from this machine. (Win 7 desktop.)

Yes even for these they can be stopped via firewall or peer block, but better they don't start at all.
(Already blew my monthly limit by accidentally leaving a bridged OpenVPN up for a few days, don't need this stuff adding to that.)

Thoughts / suggestions?