[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:  new    
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:         
Component:  GHCi        |        Version:  6.8.1  
 Severity:  trivial     |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:  firewall    |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:              |   Architecture:  x86    
       Os:  Windows     |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown

Comment:

 How bizarre.  I'm sure that GHC itself isn't sending any network packets -
 we have no network code in the runtime system, and GHC isn't linked
 against the network package.

 The packet is an ARP, and these are normally sent by the OS, not a user
 process.  Something strange is afoot.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1940#comment:1>
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