On Friday 03 January 2003 01:54 pm, Daves Debian wrote: > I have enabled dial on demand, it works great except sometimes > it dials up by itself. I assume by some program trying to access and > unknown ip address. > > How do I find out what programms are using my ppp link ? > ps ax | grep ppp > tells me ppp is active, but what caused it to activate and what > program is sending all this data ???!!! > > Many thanks for any help > Dave
Dave, I had this problem too. I have a windows box that is connected to my little LAN and it was emanating a Windows "who-has" lookup about every 15 minutes forcing a dial-up. I discovered this by using tcpdump, e.g. tcpdump -vvv -i any and comparing the output of this with the logs in /var/log/syslog which would record the time of any dial-up. I posted this to debian-user, you can search the archives under the subject "finding network activity" John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]