since reformatting the other day, windows xp has detetected my smoothwall firewall/router and installed a new little animal that resides in the taskbar and network connections called internet gateway. its a fairly benign little thingy, and helpfully detects when smoothwall is actually connected to the internet, although obviously the connect and disconnect functions do not work.
The only concern is the amount of network activity it generates. even when idle it generates about 1mbps of activity and generally seems to increase traffic between this computer and the smoothwall box. it is difficult to judge internet speed, but it does actually seem to have speeded up a bit which is very nice, altthough hard to explain.
not sure that i appreciate the increased network traffic, and am very confused to what it is actually doing to generate a such a significant constant usage.
anyone come across this before?