Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:38:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Wayne Swart <fixx@fixx.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What trigers PPP? Message-ID: <20030506133409.X89463-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20030506130814.P2858-100000@gemini.fixx.co.za>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Wayne Swart wrote: > We have a dial on demand server at a client. Running FreeBSD4.7-RELEASE. > The server act as a gateway and has squid and samba running on it. > > Ony certain ppl on the lan are allowed access to the squid, but all the > netbios. > > Something triggers the ppp on this box and I can't find what exactly it > is. > > All the gateway and DNS settings have been removed from all the client > pc's on the lan (running windows 2000 prof. (if that helps)). That caused > the ppp to kick in everytime someone made even a netbios request through > the server. > > Now we have removed all of them, but the ppp still kicks in every now and > then (more often than what is specified in crontab). > I took a look at the tcpdump logs as well, and that shows only netbios > requests from the inside to other boxes on the inside, nothing goes out > via tun0, according to tcpdump, is there anything else i can look for? Maybe you should look for tcp connections still being open on the box via "netstat -n"? >From time to time I observed a similar behavior which was caused tcp "keep alive" requests from the box to outer world because some connections still were unclosed. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany
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