Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:14:01 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "David Reid" <dlreid@netcom.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically Message-ID: <005b01bf2c92$0f220b80$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <38285A29.FA88597D@netcom.ca>
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Hi,
Maybe some of your process needs network connectivity, and they fired up
the ppp process, it could be a dns recursion, it could be an e-mail in the
queue, it could be an xntpd thing, it could be a routed thing, it could
be... , lots of thing could fire up your ppp connection, take a look at your
system, and find out what did really fired up your connection.
Have Fun...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: David Reid <dlreid@netcom.ca>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:30 AM
Subject: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically
> I am running freeBSD 3.2 and using the ppp provided with
> that release to access the internet. It works great but
> last night I had something strange happen. I sometimes have
> to share my phone line with another PC so I had to kill off
> my ppp which did happen according to the log files. I have
> it set up in -auto mode so that as long as the ppp process
> is active and it sees an attempt to access an external
> network, it will automatically dial. By killing the
> process, I figured I had stopped this for the time I was
> borrowing the dial line for my other PC. However, while
> working from my other PC, I noticed the modem for my ppp
> connection was repeatedly dialing (it was failing as I had
> actually physically moved the phone line to another modem).
> In any case, when I checked the log files later, I found
> that the ppp process had been started up by root. I did NOT
> do this, and there is no cron that would do this. It was
> also started using the exact parameters I had previously
> used (they are not default values). My startup looks like:
> ppp -auto dial-default
>
> Here is the output from the log file showing the kill of ppp
> and the startup.
>
> Nov 8 22:59:17 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: bundle: Dead
> Nov 8 22:59:57 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: Signal 15,
> terminate.
> Nov 8 22:59:57 susie ppp[36238]: Phase: PPP Terminated
> (normal).
> Nov 9 02:00:00 susie ppp[43088]: Phase: Using interface:
> tun0
> Nov 9 02:00:00 susie ppp[43088]: Phase: deflink: Created in
> closed state
> Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43088]: Warning: set log local:
> Only available on the command line
> Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43088]: Warning: set log: Failed 1
>
> Nov 9 02:00:01 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: PPP Started (auto
> mode).
> Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: bundle: Establish
> Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: deflink: closed ->
> opening
> Nov 9 02:00:04 susie ppp[43092]: Phase: deflink: Connected!
>
> I figured that it would auto dial when required but I didn't
> think it would actually auto start - or atleast not without
> me doing something in cron, etc.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is somewhat of
> a concern for me. I don't really want ppp firing up when I
> think I have terminated the process, and all connectivity to
> the internet.
>
> Please include a response to my email address as I'm not
> sure whether the response to this ends up on a mailing list
> and if so, which one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Reid
>
>
>
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