On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:59:30 +0300 (EAT), Noah Sematimba
Logged off, or Turned off? Makes a big difference.
Many nics nowdays are always hot, so that you can use wake-on-lan. But they should not make an outgoing connection.
Um, Logged off, Can they do that while logged off? Thankyou for your reply
I've seen many MS windows machines make outgoing connections even when logged off especially if they have spyware or some kind of malware installed on them.
For a unix/linux machine, there are many possibilities including scheduled cron/ AT jobs, daemons listening in the background that need some kind of connectivity etc...
Noah.
Thankyou for your reply. Yes i know that is true with linux but it seems that it is MS that is causing the offending here, I know this is suse-security but is there anything you could suggest to find out why this is happening, I will be changing over to suse but to be able to show my boss how MS is the cause would help in the move over to suse. Also i seem to not be able to use suse at home as a firewall/router I have two suse 9.1 and i want to use suse(box 1) eth0=cable modem to eth1=(suse2) but i caint seem to share inet access? Is there ICS for suse? i caint find even a setting for it? could you help me with this? thankyou if you can + thankyou if ya caint, lol yours...Ben -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/