Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 07:46:57 -0700 From: Raoul Simpson <raoul@sirius.com> To: flec@flec.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp -auto? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990903073844.009bbc40@mail.sirius.com> In-Reply-To: <37cb21f5.47081386@smtp.shellnet.co.uk> References: <19990830204658.40B88158BD@hub.freebsd.org> <19990830204658.40B88158BD@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi, Thanks for your response! Recapping my problem (it's been a few days since I first wrote), ppp -ddial dials immediately when invoked, even if no machines are making any tcp/ip requests. > 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. No, I made sure my machines were running nothing at all but the OS & I still had the same problem. Then I turned the machines off altogether, and the problem still persisted, so I'm pretty sure it's on the FreeBSD side, but I haven't a clue as to what it could be. I am not running a nameserver. The machine runs apache & sendmail, but I killed those when testing the ppp -ddial last night, but no joy. >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. Gosh I feel foolish, but after reading the docs, I couldn't figure out how to make the TCP/IP logging work. Can you send an example syslogd.conf? >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 Thanks! rs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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