Hi List Thanks for all who have suggested the problem might be the Windows PC's trying to update or do something. Last night I unplugged the server from the LAN so the Windows PC's could have no effect. I still got 7 ppp dial ups for no particular reason. I am now logging all activity to see what might be causing the link to come up. One time last night the link did not go down after the idle time and stayed up for 20 minutes for no reason at all.
Regards Richard > > Some things to check for is subscribed pages in IE and also Windows Update on > the PCs - which I assume are running some form of Windows. Windows Update can > check automatically for updates unless you tell it otherwise. Also anti-virus > programs can also check automatically for updates. I suspect there is a > program somewhere in the background that is doing an auto check for something. > > One other way to see what it is, setup squid (or similar proxy/cache app) and > set the PCs to point to that. Then look at the logs and see what is being > requested. (Or, if using IPMASQ on the linux box, enable logging for that, but > that could be rather volumous.) > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
