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ESTABLISHED TCP connections after opening browser in linux
I'm not going to try and track down the individual connections in that list, but broadly speaking, yeah, it's extremely common for software to automatically make some TCP connections upon starting. ...
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ESTABLISHED TCP connections after opening browser in linux
In most systems, this is the new normal.
There is vendor documentation on why you might find some of them desirable, as well as how to stop most automatic connections made by Firefox. However, as with ...
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Restrict VPN access to only authorised machines
Different VPN clients have different methods for accomplishing this.
some issue device-bounded clients that are generated from a base server, so users only get one, and the client is machine-bound, ...
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ESTABLISHED TCP connections after opening browser in linux
It may be "normal", but it's not okay. At least for Firefox, there is a detailed guide published by Mozilla to disabling all of the huge number of "automatic connections" made for &...
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icmp smurf attack
I assume that the following is your network topology (as you mention in your comment):
victim (mac A) -----
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(port A)
switch+router ---- (internet)...
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nmap: no exact OS matches when adding the exact signature to nmap-os-db
First, a caveat - the instructions for doing this manually is sparse and your mileage may vary.
TL;DR - You're going to have to experiment a bit. There are variances in the fingerprint returned on ...
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