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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