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Why is my firewall software alerting me to a connection attempt

I have a software firewall on trial. One penetration attempt the program consistently blocks is from IP 192.168.0.105. This attempt is incessant and for the moment I've turned off the reports. However, if it's a legitimate probe, I need to let it through. Our router IP is 192.168.0.101, so that's close to the "culprit". So, how do I determine whence cometh the IP address the firewall doesn't like?

One of the common annoyances with software firewalls is exactly this: that you may get repeated notification of access attempts, with no real sense of where they're really coming from, and whether or not they're legitimate.

In this case I can't really say whether it's legitimate.

But I can say that the IP address is closer than you think.

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