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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console login causes ppp to dial
Date: 3 May 1996 18:58:24 GMT
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Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> writes:

>Running 2.1R, when I login on a virtual console it creates a bit of network
>activity (name lookup would be my wild guess), which triggers ppp to dial.

Are you using tcsh?  The one that shipped with 2.1R was buggy and
caused some network traffic on each startup.  Replace it by a newer
version.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)