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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User ppp, client mode,... Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:30:33 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <30F4D8B9.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4cse48$c2i@cyber1.servtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: rudynel millian <rmillian@cyber1.servtech.com> rudynel millian wrote: y ISP on demand, according to the handbook > and the man page. But user ppp dials in shortly after booting up, and > remains connected until my ISP kicks me off (no activity for 20 minutes), I suspect: 1. You have some sort of DNS traffic going out. Something in your /etc/* startup files which references a host by name rather than IP? That'll do it. 2. No timeout setting in your ppp configuration file. Do you set a shorter timeout in your default: clause? > Like sendmail checking the queue? If so, how do I check who is attempting to > send packets? Compile your kernel with BPF support and use tcpdump - that'll tell you very quickly! -- - Jordan Hubbard President, The FreeBSD Project