Aside from checking to see what's running in the background, check to see what hardware pertaining to networking the OS believes it has running. (start -> settings -> ctrl pnl -> network)
if you have something listed in there, it is more than likely the OS is trying to use it for a network connect. Some video tuners will place them selves in your network stack and bind a TCP/IP to them for various reasons. There are other devices that will bind networking protocols to themselves.. Worth a look.
Regards.
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Your lack of cabling is what causes the error. Your machine will initiate a DHCP request, hence the broadcast packets on 255.255.255.0. Should there have been sufficient hardware, cabling and respective DHCP servers, your system would have acquired a new DHCP lease and your system would have notified you of that as well.Quote:
There is no way that it could have communicated to anything, that is why it is wierd to me.
