Description of the issue: When using Brave on Windows 10 I see some outbound connection requests on UDP port 137 to assorted computers on the Internet. I do not see this when using other browsers. Why? Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3. Set router or firewall to notify every …

@user2387 Sorry for the delayed reply but I really liked the clean report on your page . Wish everyone reports things in detail like this. So what you are seeing is nothing unusual. Brave installs components which are downloaded as the browser is opened. For example, Tracking protection/HTTPSE rul…

Strange network traffic out to UDP port 137 from Brave

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steeven July 17, 2019, 6:31pm 2

Hi @user2387,

Thanks for your post! Thanks for reporting your issue.

@sriram would you mind taking a look at this?

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Strange network traffic out to UDP port 137 from Brave

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