Re: (PM) Dialup ISDN w/ORU Problems (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:57:07 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Rick Smith shaped the electrons to say...
>a ptrace and found two things. There was a machine on the
>local net on their side doing udp broadcasts to find a
>bootp server to 255.255.255.255 on ports 67/68. Also,
>this customer has a partial subnet, a /28 I think, and
>when netbios broadcasts, it uses xxx.xxx.xxx.255 to do so!
>How stupid. So of course, that's not on the local net, so
>the oru dials out to find it. As soon as I put this in,
>the dialing out ended and we ended up with a happy customer.

So - how do you account for it dialing out with the ethernet unplugged?
That COULDN'T be caused by a host looking for bootp or netbios.

Did you determine what was causing the dialing when the ether was unplugged?

-MZ

-- 
<URL:mailto:megazone@megazone.org> Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me..
Join ISP/C Internet Service Providers' Consortium <URL:http://www.ispc.org/>
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 781-788-0130
<URL:http://www.gweep.net/>  <URL:http://www.megazone.org/>  Hail Discordia!
-
To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with
'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message.
Searchable list archive: <URL:http://www.livingston.com/Tech/archive/>