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Snifferclient?

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Watching some traffic on a host via logmein I see traffic that starts with this

https > snifferclient

what does that mean? google did not help much.

asked 04 Jun '12, 08:54

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That's (most certainly) just the source port of your connection, resolved to 'snifferclient' (TCP/2452).

Disable name resolution and you will see the numbers instead of the names.

Edit -> Preferences -> Name Resolution -> Enable transport name resolution

Uncheck that option.

Regards
Kurt

answered 04 Jun '12, 09:00

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edited 04 Jun '12, 09:01