Netbios security Issue?

I am using Firefox to browse. and it seems to lose its connection with every other link that I click. Each lost connection shows the following in my firewall logs:

Protocol: UDP Out
IP 192.168.0.8:137 > 192.168.0.255:137

It looks like my local IP is sending packets to the router's broadcast address using Netbios. I have always had netbios port disabled in my firewall

My questions are:

1. Why would UDP port 137/Netbios suddenly need to send to the router broadcast IP?

2. The packets appear to be dropped, so should I allow IP 192.168.0.8:137 > 192.168.0.255:137 to fix my browsing issues, or could there be something sinister going on?

With netbios disabled in WINS, and UDP port 137 blocked, I have not had issues with lost connections until yesterday. I am looking for help, because I haven't been able to figure this problem out.

 

I'm not really sure I can see how the two events are connected.

NetBIOS over UDP on port 137 is simply a name broadcast, that is, a NetBIOS enabled device on your network (PC) is letting other devices on the same network, know of it's existence. It's actually refereed to as the Name Registration Service. If you've disabled NetBIOS on the network adapter, it shouldn't be still broadcasting.

Depending on which version of firefox you're using, there have been a number of reported issues with the browser 'timing out' and 'dropping' connections.

Do you have any additional details, log files etc?

 

There does seem to be a connection due to the timing of the firewall entry and the lost connections. They happen concurrently in every instance of the problem occurring.
I recently reset my TCPIP using the command prompt. Maybe there is some sort of conflict between the network adapter, and a blocked UDP port 137 in my firewall. I will check to make sure that netbios was not affected by the TCPIP reset, and is still off in TCPIP properties of my network adapter.

 

If you used 'netsh int ip reset' it will set the NetBIOS options for each interface.

 

Thats exactly the command that I used. Thanks