Topic: Dialup triggers

[Jaco Bongers]

Hi

We need to find the machine that triggers a dialup. A cat /var/log/messages | grep Triggers shows why the connection started, but not the machine that did the original call to start the connection. Is there a way to log the originating IP address?

Jaco

[Alejandro]

Just asking.....
Do you have download accelerator in any machine?
some programs like DAP try to keep alive or check the conection at intervals and this triggers the dial up link. In the messages file you can see the port wich is being used in the trigger, If you could determine wich program ussually uses that port could be possible to find the PC wich is causing the connection to trigger
I hope be helpfull...
Alejandro

[peter]

Hi Jaco.
Install IPTraf and you can see in realtime who and what portnumber is going trough or been stopped at your servers Ethernet cards. It shows a lot more but you have to try it out for yourself to see all benefits.

Hope it helps you out.

Regards Peter.

P.s. I know it´s not the real forum for it but i suggest IPTraf to be a standard prog. i upcoming releases of E-Smith. D.s

[Jaco Bongers]

Peter

Thanks for the pointer.

I managed to find some of the causes for the link -- one of the PC's had Gator installed. It connects to find new specials or to check for a new version every 10 minutes or so.

Jaco