From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 17:35:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.shellnet.co.uk (smtp.shellnet.co.uk [194.129.209.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFBE14C94 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flec@flec.co.uk) Received: from STEVENFHOME (stevenf.shellnet.co.uk [194.128.147.85]) by smtp.shellnet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1-shellnet.stevenf) with SMTP id BAA25998; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:35:39 +0100 (BST) Posted-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:35:39 +0100 (BST) From: flec@flec.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) To: rs Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp -auto? Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:35:39 GMT Message-ID: <37cb21f5.47081386@smtp.shellnet.co.uk> References: <19990830204658.40B88158BD@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19990830204658.40B88158BD@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:45:42 -0700, you wrote: >timeout=3D600 for 10 minutes.=20 Have you got any machines running any IP services at all, eg, doing DN Sreuqests, perhaps ICQ on one of the client machines? If they're windows boxen, they seem to be unbelivably sloppy with the sheer amount of useless information that tries to get out of your default gateway. I'd suggest adding "TCP/IP" to your "set log" line, assuming ppp has been setup in /etc/syslogd.conf then the src IP:port, and dst IP:port data are all logged in /var/log/ppp.log. Once you've found out what's causing the dialup, you'll need to read up on ppp's access filters, where you can specify what packets are allowed to trigger a dial, what won't trigger a dialup ... what packets can keep the connection alive, etc etc. It takes some time to get a filter list personalised for your home lan, you've just got to look at what you want things to dial. The biggest dialup trigger is probably DNS requests though. -flec To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message