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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 07:37:41 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Edwin Culp <eculp@mail.mexcom.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp -auto 
Message-ID:  <199709110637.HAA05370@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:44:56 CDT." <34174D18.2DE8819@mexcom.net> 

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> When I run ppp -ddial it works perfectly, but when I try
> -auto it times out fine but then retries after the same 
> timeout even with no input it just sets and cycles every
> 300 seconds or whatever time I put in timeout.  
> There must be something very simple here that I am missing
> and am going to be very embarssed about but I give up.

Do a "set log +tcp/ip" (or "set debug tcp/ip ..." in older versions) 
to see what packets are triggering the dial.  You can then disable 
them via "set dfilter".

> Thanks
> 
> Ed

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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