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Chrome browser sending Keep-Alive packets?

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Mar 15, 202616871 views
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I ran Wireshark on my PC and found that my chrome browser was sending LOTS of Keep-alive packets even when there are no sites loaded in the browser, and even when there are no extensions installed!! I don't recognize the IPs that Chrome is trying to contact. Does anyone know what this is all about?…

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You may want to check out this article regarding keep-alive timeouts: Interestingly one of the other things I noticed while doing this test with Wireshark is that after 45 seconds, Chrome would send a TCP keep-alive packet, and would keep doing that…

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