On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Joe Hartley wrote:
> Rick Smith <rsmith@nac.net> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone see this ? How did you COMPLETELY solve it?
> >
> > Their router dials up every minute, idles out at their
> > location-specified idle timeout of 45 seconds, and then
> > reconnects and beings that process all over again.
>
> I'll bet a nickle they've got an NT machine on the network somewhere.
> We have a customer that started as an ISDN on-demand dialup, and saw the
> same thing. They thought it was our fault, looking at mis-programming of
> the router, but the router never dialed when not connected to the network.
>
> They methodically removed each computer (mostly Unix, some Win95) from
> the network, and waited for a connection. When they took the NT4.0 machine
> off, the connections stopped. As far as services and the like, the machine
> had virtually nothing on it - it had an IP address and 255.255.255.0 mask,
> but yet it still wanted to go somewhere that wasn't local. We never
> bothered to put a sniffer on it, but the theory was that it had to keep
> checking in with the mothership!
>
>
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