Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:40:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tcpdump and tun0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117004004.9641g-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971116204115.15896A-100000@mybsd.net>
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On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Kwoody wrote: > > I run ppp -auto -alias <isp> and ppp tries to connect when there are no > process's that ( I think) trying to call it and therefor dial out. sendmail is probably trying to do a nameserver lookup. Try setting the dfilter to block DNS lookups. > Is there another way to see what is calling ppp to dial out? Is ppp > suppoed to do this? I thought with the -auto mode, only when something > wants a ppp connetion does it dial out, then after timeout (or I kill it) > will the connection drop, then it waits for the next request. You can enable log levels. See http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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