My comodo firewall allerts me about a LAN network in the above ip range, however my system is running on wifi with no Lan connected so what can this be ? There are no virtualboxes running.
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The 169.254.x.x address range is known as the link local address range. It used in "zero configuration" setups where no DHCP server can be found. Each member of the local network will choose an IP address from the range (that doesn't conflict with anyone else). It is designed for cases where only the local network needs to communicate and no DHCP is available.
This is your exact situation, most likely an unused interface such as the virtualbox one. There is little risk in using this range, it would never be routed. Your alternative is to assign static addresses to network interfaces.
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well i used ipconfig and it does seam to be related a virtual network card from virtualbox, see below
Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::152:894d:6afb:b012%22
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.176.18
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
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