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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 22:19:16 -0400
From:      Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu>
To:        Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NT - PPP - Samba
Message-ID:  <19980501221916.B25477@homer.louisville.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980501171928.00b951c0@pop.mpc.com.br>; from Capriotti on Fri, May 01, 1998 at 05:21:27PM -0300
References:  <3.0.32.19980501171928.00b951c0@pop.mpc.com.br>

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On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 05:21:27PM -0300, Capriotti wrote:
> Current status:
> 
> I found out that PPP -auto -alias is only dialing because of NT, which is
> making some sort of call to the network.
> 
> Since I unfortunately don't have the kernel fonts right now, I won't be
> able to run TCPDUMP to check what in the heck is being called.
> 
> But I have this strange feeling that, if I enable WINS at the NT machine,
> making it point to the FBSD box, it won't have to dial.
> 

I have a Win95 box which uses my FreeBSD box as a router.  I'm running ijppp
with the autodial option on the FreeBSD box.  All was well with this setup
until I modified the Win95 box to use a machine on the other side of my PPP
link as a nameserver.  (Previously, the Win95 box was using the FreeBSD box as
a nameserver.)  As soon as I made this change, the FreeBSD box started dialing
at irregular intervals for no apparent reason.  I ran tcpdump on the tun 
interface and discovered that the Win95 box was sending a lot of netbios
traffic to the remote nameserver.  Changing the nameserver back to my FreeBSD
box has halted this problem.

I'll bet that NT is as chatty as Win95.

Regards,
--Keith Stevenson--

-- 
Keith Stevenson
System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville
k.stevenson@louisville.edu
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