Android client on Wifi causing network havoc..

jimheem — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:15:13 GMT

When I have my phone on wifi and am playing spotify, my network seems to be flooded down with incoming connection attempts.. here is a quick snippet of my firewall logs:

RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 62.64.16.40->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:32 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 14.0.43.139->10.55.0.211 on ixp1)[1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:32 2012
RGFW-RATELIMIT: 1 messages of type BLOCK-SYNFLOOD reported 1 second(s) ago Wed Oct 24 04:48:31 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 62.64.16.40->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:28 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 14.0.43.139->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:28 2012
RGFW-RATELIMIT: 1 messages of type BLOCK-SYNFLOOD reported 1 second(s) ago Wed Oct 24 04:48:27 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 62.64.16.40->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:26 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 46.232.207.4->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:24 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 14.0.43.139->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:24 2012
RGFW-RATELIMIT: 1 messages of type BLOCK-SYNFLOOD reported 1 second(s) ago Wed Oct 24 04:48:22 2012
RGFW-IN: BLOCK-RULES (ICMP type 8 code 0 62.64.16.40->10.55.0.211 on ixp1) [1406,92143623] Wed Oct 24 04:48:22 2012

As you can see, this is only over the course a few seconds - this continues for however long the android client is playing music. What's going on?

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Android client on Wifi causing network havoc..