Sygate local router solicitations

[Shaman]

Every other reboot, Sygate Personal Firewall bugs me about stuff like windows explorer/nt logon/svchost/imapi etc trying to broadcast a router solicitation to the 224.0.0.2 address. Should I allow it since it's a local adress so it's safe or should I block these solicitations? Will any windows functionality cease to work if I block all this stuff?

Thanks.

 

[Boscoh]

That sounds like something UPnP does. You might try disabling the UPnP and SSDP services if you're not using that stuff and see if it goes away.

 

[Shaman]

Thanks for the tip. I disabled those two services but continued getting the solicitations. From further searching I found out these processes are looking for routers on the network and it appears to be harmless. So I think I'll flip a coin on the next popup messages I get to allow it or block it...