[95403] in RedHat Linux List
Re: diald mysteriously dialing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Sun Oct 18 02:50:26 1998
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:48:24 -0700
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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James Hamilton wrote:
>
> Hi, I installed diald. Seems to be working great except... About every 15
> minutes or so it just dials up then closes the connection again. Can
> someone shed some light on where I can look to see what it is doing. I
> tried to cat the chat.fifo buffer but it was empty. I checked I don't
> see any cron jobs running. I do have samba for my windows computer going
> but to the best of my knowledge it's not doing anything.
>
If it's that regular, run "tcpdump -i eth0" for 15 minutes or so, and
see what kind of traffic is being generated. It might be easier if
you use netcfg to open the dial-up connection, and run "tcpdump -i
ppp0" so that local stuff doesn't show up. Try em both
MSG
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