My firewall logs the source ip address, protocol and port number of every packet it drops. Since the July time frame, it has been dropping tcp packets from webmail2.telus.net. The port numbers range from 49157 to 65534 (almost 8800 different port numbers), there are anywhere from 1-6 packets from each port, totaling over 12,500 packets, typically a few hundred per day. I only use the telus webmail from my laptop, so I presume these packets are only being received when my laptop is connected to my LAN, which is evenings and weekends.
I called telus tech support today, asking about this. The person I was talking to was pretty clueless, so he ended up going back and forth with his supervisor. Eventually, he said rather than keeping me on the line, he would investigate it further and call me back. An hour later, he called back saying the problem was with my d-link router and that they would have to replace it. I do have a d-link router, but it's only used for the optik and no computers are connected to it. (I have an alu with a pc-based router.) It makes no sense whatsoever that the problem could be with the d-link router.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?
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