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 __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\