LKBEN10659: When you use a network monitor like netmon on a system, you find a lot of broadcasts on 8116 UDP

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

A check point cluster control protocal uses 8116 udp for its high availability

Cause

Wrong configuration

Solution

The Check Point Cluster Control Protocol is used for internal communication between Hgh Availability Cluster Members. This

link is used for report and query the cluster state, probing and load balancing.
You should reconfigure the system so other systems do not need to process the broadcast packets.

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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