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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:16:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To: Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com>
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Subject: Re: ppp starting without reason...
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see coments below

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Gary Algier wrote:

> owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> > 
> > In a previous message, Antoine Beaupre said:
> > > Hi I recetnly tried to set up a PPP connection. I did everything as per
> > > the handbook for setting up user ppp. However, my kernel seems to try to
> > > establish a ppp  connection ***each time I start my system****!!!!
> > >
> > > How can I know which program is starting at startup (i.e. I know that
> > > cron starts everytime), How can I modify which will start and which will
> > > not?
> > 
> > A guess is that it's trying to resolve hostnames via a remote dns.
> > 
> > To find out, run tcpdump to watch tun0 to see what goes out.
> 
> The cuprit is probably sendmail.  I had the same problem.  When sendmail
> started, PPP started.  A quick test is to configure your system to
> not run sendmail. 

How can I do that? (not to run sendmail on startup...)


>                   I solved the problem by adding filters to not startup
> PPP on whatever was being sent by sendmail.
> 
> See the ppp man page in the section "PACKET FILTERING".  You want the
> "dfilter".
> 
> -- 
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