From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:40:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23556 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:40:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23551 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09958; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwoody cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: tcpdump and tun0 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > I run ppp -auto -alias and ppp tries to connect when there are no > process's that ( I think) trying to call it and therefor dial out. sendmail is probably trying to do a nameserver lookup. Try setting the dfilter to block DNS lookups. > Is there another way to see what is calling ppp to dial out? Is ppp > suppoed to do this? I thought with the -auto mode, only when something > wants a ppp connetion does it dial out, then after timeout (or I kill it) > will the connection drop, then it waits for the next request. You can enable log levels. See http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major