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From: "Nick Folino" <nickf@ptd.net>
To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@emsphone.com>,
        "'FreeBSD Questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: ppp -auto -alias question
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:08:05 -0400
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Thanks Dan!!

Problem finally solved :-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 9:18 PM
> To: Nick Folino; 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: Re: ppp -auto -alias question
> 
> 
> In the last episode (Aug 19), Nick Folino said:
> > I've been having this problem for over a year now and hopefully
> > someone can help.
> > 
> > I run ppp -auto -alias internet from /etc/rc.local.
> > It dials out, connects and works fine.  The problem is it never 
> wants to 
> > hang up!
> > Even after it times out, it just redials right away, even if there's 
> > nothing else turned on on the network.
> > The only thing this computer runs all the time is sendmail, 
> sshd, apache, 
> > and dhcpd.
> > 
> > Could any of these be causing it to want to be online?  I know
> > sendmail isn't trying to send anything because another machine is the
> > default SMTP server.
> 
> A great way to debug things like this is to run tcpdump on your tunnel
> device.
> 
> tcpdump -n -i tun0
> 
> Wait for the line to drop and come back up.  Then take a look at the
> timestamps from tcpdump and the ppp logfile to determine which packet
> triggered the dialout.  Once you find the offender, filter it with a
> dial filter.  I have my ppp set up this way:
> 
> # Don't reset keep alive timer on ICMP, DNS, NTP, or RC5 packets
>  set filter alive 0 deny icmp
>  set filter alive 1 deny udp src eq 53
>  set filter alive 2 deny udp dst eq 53
>  set filter alive 3 deny udp src eq 123
>  set filter alive 4 deny udp dst eq 123
>  set filter alive 5 deny tcp dst eq 2064
>  set filter alive 6 permit 0/0 0/0
> # Don't let ICMP or NTP packets cause us to dial
>  set filter dial 0 deny icmp
>  set filter dial 1 deny udp src eq 123
>  set filter dial 2 deny udp dst eq 123
>  set filter dial 3 permit 0/0 0/0
> 
> Sendmail is fond of doing DNS lookups (for MX lookups), so you might
> want to add DNS packets to your dial filter.
> 
> 	-Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com

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