[GHC] #1940: GHCi triggers firewall by sending unexpected packet

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#1940: GHCi triggers firewall by sending unexpected packet
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 Reporter:  TimAttwood  |          Owner:         
     Type:  bug         |         Status:  closed 
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:  6.8.3  
Component:  GHCi        |        Version:  6.8.1  
 Severity:  trivial     |     Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:  firewall    |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:              |   Architecture:  x86    
       Os:  Windows     |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 OK, if allowing the packet doesn't result in more packets being detected
 then I'm not sure where we can go from here. We're pretty sure GHC isn't
 really generating them, so I'm inclined to blame a bug in the firewall;
 perhaps it's assigning the packet to the process that it thinks was
 running at the time the ARP was sent, or something. If GHC is the only
 thing that you run that uses CPU for an extended period of time then that
 could be why it only happens with GHC. No other ideas come to mind.

 Anyway, I'm closing this bug as we don't really have any other way to
 proceed, and we don't think that it really is a GHC bug.


 Thanks

 Ian

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