David A. Ranch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Like Fuzzy Fox mentioned, PPPd 2.3.x is definately very nice but Diald
> -smokes- PPPD's dial-on-demand feature. The reason being, say you have a
> Windows95/NT machine behind the MASQing box. With PPPD, that line will
> come up EVERY 15 minutes wether you like it or not. This is due to
> 9x/NTs File/Print sharing browsing system.
While I don't doubt that you have seen this behavior, I think I should
point out that I have exactly the configuration you describe (pppd with
dial-on-demand, and multiple Win95 boxes behind the firewall), and I
never see my link come up except when some external traffic is
generated. I suspect that there is a different reason that your link is
coming up, though no doubt it is caused by Windows' chatty traffic.
Perhaps the fact that I run a local name server makes a difference,
because the Win95 boxes will never try to contact any external name
servers; instead, they will ask the local server, and it always knows
the answers for local hostnames.
> With Diald, you can specifically filter out this SMB traffic and keep
> the line down.
My firewall is setup to deny incoming SMB traffic, but I don't have
anything stopping outgoing traffic, and I haven't seen any of the boxes
attempt to SMB their way out of my network. Are you sure this is the
reason why the link tries to come up? That's amazing, to me.
Not trying to argue with you; just trying to learn something here. :)
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sometimes known as David DeSimone || butter quite like unrequited love."
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