If you are running a samba server with remote announce parameter set to true, that is
what will cause your netbios packets to bring up your link.
It's intended to allow you to have a netbios lan connected by phone link.
-Brett R. Davidson
425-965-6612
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> From: Edward Doolittle[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:44 AM
> To: Jim Hague
> Cc: Jake Colman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: is diald the only/best game in town?
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jim Hague wrote:
>
> > If you've got an internal network, and there are Windows machines on
> > that network, you may well find they generate regular NetBIOS packets
> > that they try to route onto the 'net. Diald can block these out; AIUI
> > pppd can't and so you'll find your line coming up every couple of
> > minutes.
>
> I'm not sure that this argument is really persuasive. Those NetBIOS
> packets shouldn't leave your local network at all, so you should have
> firewall rules that block them, in which case they will not bring up the
> link with pppd.
>
> More important for diald are packets that shouldn't bring up the link but
> should be passed over the link once it's up. BIND and NTP are two
> protocols that I have configured that way. Once the link is up, I want to
> sync my network's clocks with the correct time, but I don't think that's
> important enough to bring the link up. Similar reasoning applies to the
> name resolution service: once the link is up, I want named to have access
> to all the information it needs to keep its cache up to date, but when the
> link is down that is a low priority for me.
>
> diald gives a finer level of control over when to bring the network up and
> down, and it likely also gives finer control over the sequence of events
> used to establish the link (routing changes, etc.). It also seems to work
> better when IP numbers are assigned dynamicly. I don't know for sure
> because I haven't tried pppd demand dialing. Does anyone else know?
>
> Ed
>
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