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

Rick Smith (rsmith@nac.net)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:16:42 -0400 (EDT)

I found out that while they TOLD me they had the ethernet
disconnected, they actually disconnected it from one of
their PC's and not the router. So, in fact, it was always
the bootp/netbios thing happening.

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, MegaZone wrote:

> 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
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