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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: jcondon <jcondon@computer.net>
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In-reply-to: jcondon's message of Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:33:48 -0500
Subject: Re: ppp pmdemand dials when I dont want it to
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> 
> Been wrestling with this for about a week.  Started running 2.2.2 and
> did a fresh reinstall to 2.2.5.  All seems to work fine except it dials
> and apperently does DNS lookups for apperently no reason.  I have
> removed the -q option on Sendmail, and disabled Sendmail altogether. 
> When I unplug the ethernet cable from the Win95 machine, or dialup via
> its own modem / DUN it doesn't cause the UNIX box to dial in.  However
> when the Win95 is plugged into the ethernet and running nothing more
> then explorer and systay it will dial in with in 15 mins usually
> sooner.  I did notice that if I dial in with the Win95 box and do
> NOTHING it sends about 250 bytes a min and receives about 15K.  Could
> this have something to do with it?

This is a Win95 bug, related to having exported SMB drives.  If you
drop the SMB drives, it (probably) won't dial out.  There is also a
registry setting to achieve this, but I don't remember what it is.

And it's not a reasonable topic for freebsd-hackers, IMHO - use
freebsd-questions.

Eivind.