From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 5:55:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE2015263 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 05:55:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA23084; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:59:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991105085432.01113530@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:54:32 -0500 To: Eric Cholet From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: ppp -auto over-dials Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01BF278C.17A29960.cholet@logilune.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Tom Embt ICQ UIN: 11245398 tom@embt.com d:-)> ------------------------------------------------------------------ "You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!" "Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message