On Ubuntu 22.04, every time a USB device is connected to the computer, the system sends IGMP and WS-Discovery packets on the network. More specifically, on a newly installed Ubuntu 22.04, connecting any USB stick or USB mouse will trigger the sending of:
- IGMP packet to the multicast IP address 224.0.0.22
- WS-Discovery (port 3702) packets over UDP/IPv4 and UDP/IPv6, respectively to 239.255.255.250 or ff02::c, packets which are sent out by colord-sane
This is probably similar to the issue previously mentioned here: What is colord-sane and why does it show up on lsof internet watch?
What would be expected:
- No network traffic to be generated for local-only USB devices
- No SANE-related sub-requests (e.g., no color profile adjustment attempts from colord) when the USB device is not a scanner
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