From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 18:30: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDCC37B405 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 18:29:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a131.otenet.gr [212.205.215.131]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0E2TsO14521; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 04:29:54 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0E2TtR21637; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 04:29:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 04:29:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: How to find out why ppp link is coming up? Message-ID: <20020114022954.GA20826@hades.hell.gr> References: <200201131549.g0DFnMe26073@panix2.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201131549.g0DFnMe26073@panix2.panix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-01-13 10:49:22, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm seting up a new STABLE syste, Among other things, this machine will > provide an on demand connection the network at wor for all the mahcines on > my home lan. This machinis _not_ the default gateway, but I plan on puting > a route in that machine that points to the new FreeBSD machine for the work > network. I have not yet put this route in. > > However if I enable "GATEWAY=ON" in /etc/rc.conf, the new machine seems to > dial the work netwokr on a very regualrr (every 10 minutes ?) bassis, even > thogh it should have not trafic for that net. This is answered in the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html#PPP-AUTO-NOREASONDIAL > How can Idetermine what is causing ppp to bring the link up? The FAQ entry linked above describes a way to find out what causes the dial attempt :) -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message