Randy wrote: > > > A think alot more info is needed here. Which distro, how is all of > > this setup? Linux, out of the box, isn't capable of connecting to a > > remote modem, so you had to have set this up in some capacity at some > > point in time. Care to explain? > > Not at all. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 using DHCP. The problem was > intermittent at first, but is pretty persistent, now. My server is a > WIN 98 box that I connect to through a Linksys switch. My NIC is a > Realtek 8139. I have a hardware A/B switch in the phone line to > completely shut the server out of the phone line. I put that in when my > eDesktop install (different box than this Mandrake box) would > intermittently do this same thing. What both installs and boxes have > had in common is the WIN 98 server. It's a standard network setup > though, only needed protocols. Let me know if you need any other info. > Thanks Lonni. > Randy Donohoe
Are you certain this isn't something in Windows? In Win: Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections Tab Sets whether or not to dial a connection. If you are using the Windows Box as your gateway, I assume you want to auto dial so that's not really much help. What you need to do is see what Internet bound traffic is being generated by the Linux box that's causing the dial out. #man tcpdump or #man ethereal Is the /etc/resolv.conf set to look for DNS outside your local network? If it is and you so much as sneeze in the general direction of a host that isn't BOTH _local to your network_ AND _locally listed in your /etc/hosts file_ it will query the external DNS servers in resolv.conf causing the dial out. Perhaps? If this doesn't do it, you'll have to have tcpdump or ethereal come up as soon as your eth0 is configured (somewhere in your rc scripts or rc#.d directories) and capture the packet log to a file to see what's leaving the linux host bound for where. HTH -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
