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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Console login causes ppp to dial Date: 3 May 1996 18:58:24 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4mdl0g$hqu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4m6g3f$n6a@samba.rahul.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> writes: >Running 2.1R, when I login on a virtual console it creates a bit of network >activity (name lookup would be my wild guess), which triggers ppp to dial. Are you using tcsh? The one that shipped with 2.1R was buggy and caused some network traffic on each startup. Replace it by a newer version. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)