From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 15:22:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CF514F37 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:22:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (solaris.puebla.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA66294; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:22:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <00c001bf2d64$90f7c640$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: Cc: "David Reid" , References: <38285A29.FA88597D@netcom.ca> <005b01bf2c92$0f220b80$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> <382B4393.12007D87@krak.xs4all.nl> Subject: RE: HELP: problem? ppp starts up automatically Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:20:53 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Alejandro Ramirez Cc: David Reid ; 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message