Modem: connect,connect,connect....
Hello,
Is anyone else having their modem connect incessantly? Where would I look
for what is initializing the connection? /var/log/messages doesn't show the
culprit. Can you tell I'm getting PO'ed? Sorry...just getting weary of
typing
Tom, I don't know if this is your problem or not. I had, on 6.4, a dial-up with a USR ISA modem and at one time I killed the x-server while I was still dialed up. From that moment on, everytime I went into "x", it would dial my modem up. The way that I fixed it (I use Gnome/Enlightenment) was to open my x-session and close all of the programs that opened (i.e. the wvdial, eterm windows, etc...). After all of the progs. were shut down, I closed my x-session and selected to save the desktop configuration (when prompted with the "yes" or "no" buttons). After that, it never happened again. This might or might not be your solution. Hope it helps. Doug
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Bishop [mailto:tb64710@alltel.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:55 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Modem: connect,connect,connect....
Hello, Is anyone else having their modem connect incessantly? Where would I look for what is initializing the connection? /var/log/messages doesn't show the culprit. Can you tell I'm getting PO'ed? Sorry...just getting weary of typing
. Using 7.1Pro, 2.4 kernel and KDE2. Turned off SuSEfirewall and installed PMfirewall, but the same thing happens. This machine is the gateway. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com
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Tom Bishop wrote:
Hello, Is anyone else having their modem connect incessantly? Where would I look for what is initializing the connection? /var/log/messages doesn't show the culprit. Can you tell I'm getting PO'ed? Sorry...just getting weary of typing
. Using 7.1Pro, 2.4 kernel and KDE2. Turned off SuSEfirewall and installed PMfirewall, but the same thing happens. This machine is the gateway.
Hi Tom, I have seen things like this with ISDN. Fortunately, diagnosis tools seem to be better. Usually these are DNS requests. Make sure all local used IP's are in /etc/hosts, the local network addresses in /etc/networks. If you use samba, make sure to have "interfaces=10.200.128.236/255.255.252.0" in the global section (replace with your IP/netmask). Some Windows machines can cause DNS lookups as well, du to "bad" network config. And then, there are open sockets. (with dynamic IPs') "netstat -an" will list all sockets. These result from broken connections and try to dial out with the "old" IP. Firewall rules can be helpful in that case. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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Doug Finch
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