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Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:54:32 -0500
From:      Tom Embt <tom@embt.com>
To:        Eric Cholet <cholet@logilune.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp -auto over-dials
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19991105085432.01113530@mail.embt.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BF278C.17A29960.cholet@logilune.com>

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At 12:48 11/05/1999 +0100, Eric Cholet wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just installed a 3.3 system and have configured ppp in automatic mode
>to dial my ISP. The setup works fine, but I find that ppp is dialing out
>every few minutes.
>
>I have stopped sendmail, I have no named running. I have no cron jobs.
>
>How can I proceed to see what triggers the dialing out?
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Eric
>

Probably DNS queries or something, try 

tcpdump -ni tun0

and see who it's connecting to and on what port numbers.  You can grep for
the port numbers in /etc/services to see what they do.

'man tcpdump' for details of course

Once you find out what is causing the problem, you can set up a filter in
ppp.conf to prevent it from dialing on that condition.


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