Re: [LUG] Just Curious?

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi mathew,

i think my diald is not set up perfectly to be honest - the dial on 
demand seems to fire off too much on my setup as well.  however, i don't 
really use dial-on-demand.

i mainly use the force-up option on the diald control panel (dialdcost). 
when i sit down at the PC i set the force-up option to 'on'.  and when 
i've finished or the morning after a download i turn it off again. 
because i use a modem and have a 24hr dialup package this suits me 
best.  diald is very configurable - the conf file is pretty intense!!! 
if you need any help with it maybe www.deja.com would help,

i work with MS networks and the amount of network traffic caused by 
windows machines is huge - they're constantly calling eachother, 
advertising services, calling elections etc!!!!  maybe if you turned off 
NETBIOS and stuck to tcp only that would help,

kev



matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> diald needs to be reconfigured because XP is quite promiscuous! Without hacking
> the diald configuration, my ISP is being dialed as soon as it goes down. Auto
> dialing from the XP does not do this, presumably because it is already
> configured properly. I will need to sniff the packets to see what is going
> across my network, as all I have turned on is TCP/IP. Can't think what XP is
> doing, other than trying to find a way home...
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew
>
>
>
>
>
> kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx> on 19/01/2002 18:46:07
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> hi matthew,
>
> what needs configuring RE diald - is it because the XP box does not fire
> up the link?
>
> as a quick answer - i downloded the dial control panel from debian
> called dialdcost - then i made this available via a vnc session to
> anyone on the network - it works fine because you can set it to dial on
> demand - or force it up continuously - or quickly shut the link etc.
>
> HTH
>
> kev
>
> matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Kevin,
> >
> > We're actually using Office 2000 with XP, but that is only because I didn't
> have
>
> > the installables for Open Office 6.0. I actually use Open Office on my laptop
> > (which is running Linux - my own distribution).
> >
> > I take your point about connecting XP direct to the internet, but needs must at
> > the moment. I run diald on my firewall, and this works fine when only running
> > Linux, but needs to be reconfigured because of the XP box. I need to do some
> > packet analysis - anyone know of some good tools?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx> on 15/01/2002 21:00:17
> >
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> >
> >
> > hi mathew,
> >
> > even if your wife is only happy with XP you could still benefit from
> > open source software - i'd be interested to know how openoffice 6 for
> > windows compares.
> >
> > be careful about connecting the XP machine directly to the internet -
> > see http://grc.com/default.htm
> >
> > BTW - there are two great tools on the site for testing firewalls under
> > the shields up link - i managed a clean sweep - nothing to show [for now
> > anyway :o) ].  i'd be interested in anyone else's firewalls results - or
> > any windows machine's results.  i'll test out the firewall at work
> > (windows SBS) and post the results,
> >
> > kev
> >
> > matthew.gibbons@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Small network,
> > >
> > > Frodo:    750MHz Athlon, 768MB, 40GB, DVD, CD/RW, Windows/XP
> > > Bilbo: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, CVS, DHCP, DNS, FTP
> > > (ProFTPd), HTTP (Apache), NNTP, SMTP (Qmail)
> > > Sting: 166MHz Pentium, 64MB, 4GB, My own Linux 2.4.8, NetFilter, PPP, Squid,
> > > Diald
> > > Smaug: 750MHz Pentium Laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8100), 256MB, 10GB, DVD, My own
> > > Linux 2.4.17
> > >
> > > Yes, I did buy Windows/XP Home Edition, and to be honest, I really like it.
> And
>
> > > that is a high accolade, considering my feelings about free software. My wife
> > > can't run Linux. I've tried everything I can to get her to use it, but it
> > always
> >
> > > causes a problem somewhere along the line, which she is unable to cope with.
> It
>
> > > is not that she couldn't learn, she just doesn't have the time. She's a user,
> > > and Windows/XP is a user's operating system.
> > >
> > > If anyone is interested, I might post a review of Windows/XP. Flames? :-)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > >
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