This is classic behavior of Microsoft File / Print Sharing. Use my
Diald filters to solve this. TELNETs, WWW, etc will still get Diald
to bring up the link.
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/PPP/ppp-performance.html#linux
--David
>I have a masqueraded lan that connects to the internet via diald. Everything
>works fine, except when I start my internal windows machine, it brings up the
>diald link. It is running the microsoft networking, sharing out files and a
>printer, using TCP/IP only. I don't know if I can prevent this with a diald
>standard.filter change, or I can stop it with an ipfwadm command.
>
>I have read the diald faq, and been through the masq HOWTO. The faqs tell me
>that I should run tcpdump to find out the type of packet that may be opening
the
>link, but I have little experience with this command, and was hoping to get an
>answer here.
>
>Can anyone help?
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