Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:20:53 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: <wim@xs4all.nl> Cc: "David Reid" <dlreid@netcom.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically Message-ID: <00c001bf2d64$90f7c640$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <38285A29.FA88597D@netcom.ca> <005b01bf2c92$0f220b80$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> <382B4393.12007D87@krak.xs4all.nl>
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Hi,
You have to know whats in your system, for example: if you have a DNS
server, you will have the UDP port 53 open, and that could be the one
causing the dials, if you have sendmail running, you will have the TCP port
25 open, and if you have a POP3 server, you will have the TCP port 110 open,
and if you have comsat running, you will have the UDP port 512 open, and if
you have...
You have to know whats in your system, you can disable things one at a time,
or several together, the "sockstat" command its your friend, and the
"netstat -a| grep LISTEN" its your friend also.
Have Fun...
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: wim <wim@krak.xs4all.nl>
To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>
Cc: David Reid <dlreid@netcom.ca>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically
> Hi,
>
> what would really help in such a case is a log somewhere of what
ip-address
> request on what port number caused the connection to be made. I have a
similar
> question with isdn. You'd know where to start looking :-)
> How do you get an ip-address/port request causing the dialout in a log
file ??
>
> kind regards,
>
> -wim
>
> Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
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