Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:16:18 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp starting without reason... Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980420181513.128B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <353BBA76.BDAE7DC1@dgms.com>
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see coments below On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Gary Algier wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > > > In a previous message, Antoine Beaupre said: > > > Hi I recetnly tried to set up a PPP connection. I did everything as per > > > the handbook for setting up user ppp. However, my kernel seems to try to > > > establish a ppp connection ***each time I start my system****!!!! > > > > > > How can I know which program is starting at startup (i.e. I know that > > > cron starts everytime), How can I modify which will start and which will > > > not? > > > > A guess is that it's trying to resolve hostnames via a remote dns. > > > > To find out, run tcpdump to watch tun0 to see what goes out. > > The cuprit is probably sendmail. I had the same problem. When sendmail > started, PPP started. A quick test is to configure your system to > not run sendmail. How can I do that? (not to run sendmail on startup...) > I solved the problem by adding filters to not startup > PPP on whatever was being sent by sendmail. > > See the ppp man page in the section "PACKET FILTERING". You want the > "dfilter". > > -- > Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gary.algier@dgms.com +1 609 608 2758 > DGM&S Telecom, 1025 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 609 866 8850 > Paul Petzoldt on the renaming of Mount Washington: > "I Call it the New England Booby Trap. We see Ph.D.'s from private schools > taking kids up there in shorts. People die like flies up there!" > ############################### ## Au nom de l'etat, ## ## La force s'appelle droit. ## ## Au main de l'individu, ## ## Elle se nomme crime. ## ## ## ## -Berurier Noir ## ############################### Spidey Visitez http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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